On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Jim Harvey <jhar...@hanoverpa.com> wrote:
> Below is a portion of an email describing a new method to allow users to
> view videos on the web. What I get out of this is that even someone on
> dial-up can view a HD quality 2 minute video instantly with no delay for
> buffering, etc., AND no player needs to be installed locally to play the
> video.
>
>
> "Company" is investing $20,000 in two servers with Flash software ("Flash
> servers") which will allow them to present instant-on, high quality
> streaming videos to our customers that is independent of the capabilities of
> the receiving computers. This is the latest technology that is employed by
> the people who are putting broadcast TV on the web, and is used on websites
> such as www.hulu.com. There are no players to download. There is no video
> that is actually downloaded to your computer (unless you wish to save it,
> and make a special effort to do so). Everything is web based, so it doesn't
> matter whether you have a superfast computer or a slow computer; to a great
> degree, even the type of connection is relatively secondary. All you do is
> click a button, and the video comes on almost immediately with none of the
> loading/buffering issues you saw with <other> system<s>. Quality is supposed
> to be far better, and is claimed to be somewhere between Hi Def and Blue
> Ray. Degradation of image quality is said to be minimal even when you make
> the image full screen. Customers therefore should see a far better image,
> watchable on full screen, with no download delays/buffering problems no
> matter what their computer's capabilities may be.
>
>
> This seems almost too good to be true, are there any opinions out there that
> could help me determine the veracity of this statement.
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You have to get some sort of media to present in your browser. You
cannot get something for nothing.
You will need drivers to interpret that media. Currently they use
flash and there is an adobe air client for the desktop.
--
Stephen Russell
Sr. Production Systems Programmer
Web and Windows Development
Independent Contractor
Memphis TN
901.246-0159
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