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Showing posts with label Streaming Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Streaming Media. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Always Connected is Not Always Good [INFOGRAPHIC]
Yeah, sure, you have a smartphone, an iPad, AND a laptop. You've got a mad WiFi network at home, at school, at McDonald's, at Starbucks - hell, even your MOM's got a wireless router. No wonder it feels like we can never "get away" - we're just always connected:
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Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Is Video Streaming Killing "Regular" TV? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Let's face it - network television is dying the same slow death that record stores did. It will take a little longer - because, unlike the music industry, television didn't change formats requiring you to re-buy all your favorite content on a different media (e.g. record, 8-track, cassette, CD, MP3).
And, I don't know about you - but after owning a digital video recorder (DVR) for a few years I can hardly watch "live" TV anymore. The commercials drive me nuts! It's way more convenient to just record the shows I want and "zap" through the commercials.
It seems that other people agree as well. According to a 2011 Nielsen report (the folks that count who what and when people watch TV and listen to radio) - people are streaming the heck out of video from all kinds of sources.
The obvious missing element is Netflix - but because people can stream that from all kinds of devices (AppleTV, Wii, Xbox, etc) - it wasn't included. But, I would wager when you throw in Netflix (which currently consumes over 30% of the entire bandwidth of the entire Internet!) - these totals go waaayyyy up.
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And, I don't know about you - but after owning a digital video recorder (DVR) for a few years I can hardly watch "live" TV anymore. The commercials drive me nuts! It's way more convenient to just record the shows I want and "zap" through the commercials.
It seems that other people agree as well. According to a 2011 Nielsen report (the folks that count who what and when people watch TV and listen to radio) - people are streaming the heck out of video from all kinds of sources.
The obvious missing element is Netflix - but because people can stream that from all kinds of devices (AppleTV, Wii, Xbox, etc) - it wasn't included. But, I would wager when you throw in Netflix (which currently consumes over 30% of the entire bandwidth of the entire Internet!) - these totals go waaayyyy up.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The Day Web Video Died
Yesterday was supposed to be a day when live video streaming thumbed it's nose at traditional TV broadcasting - ushering a new age of nirvana (and advertising dollars). DOH!
Beyond just my personal experience with it (see yesterday's column) - a lot of 0thers had the same experience - every URL hit within 20 minutes of the actual speech was met with a virtual waiting room. CNN's said - "Congratulations - You Made It! (...but so did everyone else)" and then it would put you in the queue for when some poor schmo dropped out.
After having a look at the numbers - I can understand why: CNN.com alone served 21.3 million streams - with a peak of 1.3 million simultaneous streams. Geez... no wonder the video was jerky and continually dropped out.
Likewise, Akami, a company that mirrors content and provides "local" servers to spread out volume reported a peak of 5.4 million visitors per minute - and more than 7 million simultaneous streams!
Now that's some serious traffic. And, because I live in LA - I know what happens when lots of folks have the same idea and all want to go to the same place at the same time - traffic. A no-holds-barred, bumper-to-bumper, packet-to-packet jam that will only get better as people leave the highway.
Video over the Internet isn't ready for prime time - at ALL. By way of contrast the "traditional" broadcast media has the bandwidth and hard-wired infrastructure to push video out to a virtually unlimited number of people simultaneously.
It will get better, of course, as time goes on. As companies come up with new video codecs, compression and more companies like Akami add server capacity to the edges of the Internet. Oh, and hopefully when President Obama starts to re-wire the entire nation with a really good network - that'll sure help as well (fingers crossed).
Beyond just my personal experience with it (see yesterday's column) - a lot of 0thers had the same experience - every URL hit within 20 minutes of the actual speech was met with a virtual waiting room. CNN's said - "Congratulations - You Made It! (...but so did everyone else)" and then it would put you in the queue for when some poor schmo dropped out.
After having a look at the numbers - I can understand why: CNN.com alone served 21.3 million streams - with a peak of 1.3 million simultaneous streams. Geez... no wonder the video was jerky and continually dropped out.
Likewise, Akami, a company that mirrors content and provides "local" servers to spread out volume reported a peak of 5.4 million visitors per minute - and more than 7 million simultaneous streams!
Now that's some serious traffic. And, because I live in LA - I know what happens when lots of folks have the same idea and all want to go to the same place at the same time - traffic. A no-holds-barred, bumper-to-bumper, packet-to-packet jam that will only get better as people leave the highway.
Video over the Internet isn't ready for prime time - at ALL. By way of contrast the "traditional" broadcast media has the bandwidth and hard-wired infrastructure to push video out to a virtually unlimited number of people simultaneously.
It will get better, of course, as time goes on. As companies come up with new video codecs, compression and more companies like Akami add server capacity to the edges of the Internet. Oh, and hopefully when President Obama starts to re-wire the entire nation with a really good network - that'll sure help as well (fingers crossed).
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