Streaming media- General discussion
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Streaming media- General discussion What do you see as the future of Streaming Media? Since this may mean different things to different people, I would suggest Wikipedia as a baseline for discussion. Streaming media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Some possible subjects: -How much do you use media streaming... on your Computer, TV, Phone, Tablet or Media Player ala Roku? How much "live" how much "on demand". - The future... will this change the face of Television within five years? Can TV survive? - What will the business model be? Can hundreds of Television Companies survive, either as standalone streaming, or without provider "bundles". - Will Streaming media change the social structure of the country. Ie. watching on an individual basis versus the family room. Will 24/7 "anywhere" access change the "out of the home" society? Has this already happened? Can it get worse? -What is missing today that prevents you from cancelling your TV wired or satellite service. .................................................. .................................. I just spent a few hours looking at the options that are available on my Sony Media player. Except for the ponderously slow access that comes from using the remote to search and select, there appears to be little difference from contract TV except for the live streaming content. My feeling is that content providers may eventually find their profitability more challenged, much in the way that newspapers and books have been affected by advancing technology. ...but your mileage may vary... - ' + '?' + google_ads[i].line2 + '?' + google_ads[i].line3 + '?' + '' + google_ads[i].visible_url + ' '; } } '' } if (google_ads[0].bidtype == "CPC") { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); return; } google_ad_client = 'ca-pub-7757781251671730'; google_ad_channel = '3711355403'; google_ad_output = 'js'; google_max_num_ads = '6'; google_ad_type = 'text'; google_feedback = 'on'; // -->
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Northern IL Posts: 9,982 |
I use streaming media - sometimes it's fine, but mostly I HATE it. For TV shows, movies - I would much rather set up my computer to download them at night, so I don't use my bandwidth during prime time. If DW and I are both streaming, a VOIP phone call can get choppy. Mostly, streaming is a copyright issue - the movie owners do not want you to be able to DL it, they feel more secure if you only have 10 seconds or so of the movie 'in your possession' at a time. For little news segments and so forth, it's fine, probably preferred for that as you can start watching before it is all DL'd. edit/add:
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I do a fair amount of streaming media. Netflix, Cnet and various other sites. I have my projection set connected via WD Live and my living room via RoKu. My wife and are are already split on what we watch. We have (2) Dish DVRs and watch different shows. I have not researched cancelling Dish yet. I will reduce my plans though. I have not checked out the sports stuff that I watch for availability and cost. I don't see that TV will go away, there will just be a different delivery as we have seen in the past. Over the air -> cable -> satellite -> streaming. One thing that I find curious is that the cable companies are competing against themselves. Cable TV vs cheap high bandwidth streaming. Streaming does have some glitches. I have a 20mbps internet extreme connection with Time Warner. Fairly often, it stops for buffering. Once it stops, it keeps happening requiring a reboot. Based on the web forums, not may people have this issue, but no one can sovle mine. Time Warner tech support is less then useless.
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I don't do streaming a lot - I do a lot of time-shifting... record shows to tivo dvr, watch them later w/out the commercials. Streaming, in my area, tends to get a lot of buffering... which drives me nuts. My ISP is totally non-responsive since I'm not streaming through *their* settop solution. Instead I'm streaming from Amazon unbox, or amazon prime, or various websites like youtube. I won't ditch cable in the nearterm... I like my news channels and hgtv too much. And the hubster has a weird addiction to the weather channel. Something about seeing Jim Cantore blowing sideways in a hurricane.... My job is related to all of this, although my local provider doesn't use anything I work on... ERD50 is right - there are copyright issues. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a driving force in streaming, cable content, etc... It's only going to get more expensive and locked down going forward.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Chicagoland Posts: 5,580 |
Wow, broad question (streaming music & videos vs streaming movies). I do a lot of streaming online and I'll bet everyone here has whether they know it or not (music, youtube, etc.). But since you asked about TV specifically, I don't yet though I also do a lot of time shifting with our DVR. However, I'm convinced that eventually all content will be available on demand or asynchronous. The days of sitting down to watch a television show at a prescribed time are numbered, though I'm not suggesting it will happen in a year or two, it will take quite a while IMO. There will always be some real time content, like breaking news, but that'll be streamed too one day. Just as the music industy was transformed by Napster, iTunes et al, television and movies will be too (though they will fight it tooth and nail, having seen what happened to the music industry). But they will have to adapt eventually. My 2?...
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