Netflix, Blockbuster, and streaming content ... what impact?

2009-03-26 Thread Joe Greco
I've been seeing a flurry of new streaming service offerings, proposed or actual, such as Netflix, where it appears that they may be shooting to eventually ditch the mailed-DVD approach and just do broadband delivery of content. Might be a ways off, but they're doing the streaming now.

Re: Netflix, Blockbuster, and streaming content ... what impact?

2009-03-26 Thread Brandon James
Alexander Harrowell wrote: The UK has already had this experience in early 2008 when the BBC began making huge amounts of TV content available through its iPlayer project. The impact on the DSL ISP industry was..not pretty. Our company did quite a bit of analysis on the results:

RE: Netflix, Blockbuster, and streaming content ... what impact?

2009-03-26 Thread Moriniaux Michel
, Blockbuster, and streaming content ... what impact? I've been seeing a flurry of new streaming service offerings, proposed or actual, such as Netflix, where it appears that they may be shooting to eventually ditch the mailed-DVD approach and just do broadband delivery of content. Might be a ways off

Re: Netflix, Blockbuster, and streaming content ... what impact?

2009-03-26 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Regarding OnLive, the short answer would appear to be that it's like streaming video, but more latency-critical.