Brian Butterworth wrote:
BBC set to name Erik Huggers as Ashley Highfield's successor
It's now official:
Press Release
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/07_july/18/huggers.shtml
BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7513513.stm
Nick Reynolds Blog Post
Having to go fishing for your fish chips (ok, I'm not very good with
metaphors - big deal ;)
Anyway, Amazon's streaming now, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/technology/17amazon.html?_r=1scp=2sq=amazonst=cseoref=slogin
...It will also let users buy a TV show or movie without actually
Unofficial off-the-top-of-my-head: 11:1 streaming:download.
So this means even more pressure for the ISPs (a good thing in my opinion -
will speed them up figuring out a viable business model for all these bits
to be delivered) - and maybe a little less flak for the BBC for shifting the
TBs with
Here's some figures:
...while the number of those choosing to stream content outnumbers those
that download content by 8:1...
from http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/01/16/bbc_iplayer_used_by_a_million.html,
January 2008
...Given that the ratio of downloads to streaming views runs at 1:8 for
iPlayer, it
It's still about 8:1 between streaming and download.
Best not to confuse any issues around P2P with the general uses for download -
when viewing content offline, at high quality, on a train or even transferring
to mobile devices downloads will serve a particular user group and set of
2008/7/18 Oeztunali, Sebnem (CT) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
...It will also let users buy a TV show or movie without actually
downloading the video file to the PC's hard drive...
This statement is either misguided or lying. :-)
I believe this is the single viable option, and is true to the
2008/7/18 John O'Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It's still about 8:1 between streaming and download.
Thanks for confirming this :-)
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Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/7/18 Oeztunali, Sebnem (CT) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
...It will also let users buy a TV show or movie without actually
downloading the video file to the PC's hard drive...
This statement is either misguided or lying. :-)
Why should it be either? It's possible to buy
2008/7/18 John O'Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It's still about 8:1 between streaming and download.
Thanks for confirming this :-)
Empirical or based on hard stats? (if there's a recent study I'd be
interested to know, as it could come in useful for my final year
dissertation)
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On 7/18/08, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/7/18 Oeztunali, Sebnem (CT) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
...It will also let users buy a TV show or movie without actually
downloading the video file to the PC's hard drive...
This statement is either misguided or lying. :-)
Not necessarily.
Based on stats - I don't have an off the shelf study to hand that I can
release, but as indicated elsewhere, it is true that the number of downloads
versus streams is influenced on a day to day basis depending on the type of
content available.
If there is interest in more stats then let me
2008/7/18 Ciaran Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 7/18/08, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/7/18 Oeztunali, Sebnem (CT) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
without actually downloading the video file to the PC's hard drive...
This statement is either misguided or lying. :-)
Not necessarily. It
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