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The Tsunami that is the Internet has washed over industry after industry as it's speed and reliability has improved. TV now finds itself the next set of businesses suddenly knee deep in an ocean of rising cheap bandwidth. How will they fair compared to their fellow media companies that lived a little lower down in bandwidth requirements such as the newspapers, music labels, and telephone companies?

Now toss in Moore's law and how I have a camera in my phone that can shoot HD video and edit and distribute and do a better job then I ever could 15 years back with $20K worth of gear.

Change will be coming.

Internet Video has been my life's work.
I write a blog on this http://www.videotechnology.com/

I am http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsokol

http://www.videotechnology.com/
http://churchofbsd.blogspot.com/

So what happens when someone streams CNN on justin.tv or ustream?
Many people are starting to cancel their cable service as the bills have started to become excessive and the content has gotten crappier. (or maybe it's just seems like it as I get older)

I really want to start a Cable TV service over the Internet , as in IPTV.
http://www.videotechnology.com/tv/ Try the space bar to change channels.

All the technology is in place for this already, and I know how to get legitimate content licenses.

So yesterday I spoke on the phone briefly with Steve Wozniak who expressed a slight interest. I really need to get sponsors and a few people with some pull to make these things happen.

I also am planning on starting an Open source project for an Alternative to Google TV (Android) called Amorphous OS, that's based on Linux.
http://www.dnull.com/~sokol/amorp/ I gave a talk on this 10 years ago, since then we have done some experients but I could really use some help on security and Object models.

We need the Open Source community to step up and own this technology otherwise we'll all be left out again like the Phone Companies and Microsoft did to us in the past.

I think an open source alternative to Google TV / Apple TV could easily find it's way in to Televisions if the effort is put in to such a project.

Few people realize that most of these BlueRay players, and Set top boxes such as TiVo are based on Linux already. What remains is the next layer up.
X windows is unacceptable for some things, and things like KDE and other windows managers just aren't consumer friendly.

Android's model of Apps is really out dated. Even Java Applets are more advanced in that they don't get "Installed" and "upgraded" or "updated"
I want to take this to another level for the way applications are build, offered, managed and secured.

I believe that Amorphous OS can be the way to do this, with Micropayment it could even make the Open Source Model profitable and still remain open.

Anyone with any real interest can reach me at videotechnology.com

John

I have been researching this now for several years. That how to make due without Cable TV and the Difference in Internet vs. Cable for TV viewing.

There are a few things there the Live streaming channels are really missed.
So I have created a site to reproduce these.

http://www.videotechnology.com/tv/ It's mostly news for now. I will be adding sports and music next.

I also have started http://utvii.com/ but this is still under works.

At http://www.videotechnology.com/ I am also writing articles on this subject for my main web site.

I have a business plan for delivering full cable TV over the Internet right now that I am still finishing up and have some people interested in funding.

I have been researching this now for several years. That how to make due without Cable TV and the Difference in Internet vs. Cable for TV viewing.

There are a few things there the Live streaming channels are really missed.
So I have created a site to reproduce these.

http://www.videotechnology.com/tv/ It's mostly news for now. I will be adding sports and music next.

I also have started http://utvii.com/ but this is still under works.

At http://www.videotechnology.com/ I am also writing articles on this subject for my main web site.

I have a business plan for delivering full cable TV over the Internet right now that I am still finishing up and have some people interested in funding.

  That page said: Coming Fall of 2009

  I have been researching this for some time, seems many of the HMD companies have folded or been acquired or changed names.

  The rest are using simple optics, and are bulky.

  Micro Optical had there EG-7

But there has been nothing but vaporware products since.

I found one that seems super cool,SBG Labs Holographic Eye Adaptive Display HEAD Technology but it's also vaporware for the moment.
Here is a youtube clip

Yes I know this is off topic, but I had to check out the tag line on this one.

"I'm making a Low Budget HDV Filipino Horror Movie in NYC [bangamovie.com]"

Interesting, I don't know about your special effects they could be better, but the girl is just beautiful.

http://www.videotechnology.com/ is my site.

I have only been explaining this architecture since 1990 or so, "Head in hands shaking it" why doesn't anyone get it when I explain it!
  Worse yet when they do "get it", it's like some new invention as if they never heard it before.

I have tried 3 times to get set top box companies going to do this since 1994 only to have "money people" not "get it".

Decentralized is the solution with high demand, high up time services for the internet.

Like Google for example. It's also worked great for Torrent and Skype.

There isn't any reason, Set top Boxes, for video aren't doing it right now, but fear and incompetence. When they do, Cable as we know it IS DEAD!!!! Oh youtube may also go by the way side.

They just need to get that couch potato channel flipping going correctly. This several seconds to change channels blows.

If I sound in an off mood maybe my Mc Donald's coffee wasn't hot enough.

I also have a badly explained idea for an OS that does this type of "millions of these boxes each acting as a mini data center"
http://www.dnull.com/os/ Amorphous OS - It came out better in the talk...

Isn't this the whole frigging concept of Peer to peer and the WHOLE Internet FTP Unix bla bla bla back in the 1970 and 80!!!! I mean before PC's were even allowed to play on the Internet as more then Dumb Terminals.

Has the web perverted people view of things so much that when they realize they can use their local PC for more then viewing web pages it's some major revelation.

Some of you need to go read the "Hobbes' Internet Timeline" and learn a bit more about how this network came to be.

Below is a good paper I did on this in 2003.
http://www.videotechnology.com/economics_of_video.htm

2005
http://www.videotechnology.com/startrek/

Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem (v1.2) By William B. Norton
http://www.blogg.ch/uploads/Internet-Video-Next-Wave-of-Disruption-v1.2.pdf

I have only been explaining this architecture since 1990 or so, "Head in hands shaking it" why doesn't anyone get it when I explain it!
  Worse yet when they do "get it", it's like some new invention as if they never heard it before.

I have tried 3 times to get set top box companies going to do this since 1994 only to have "money people" not "get it".

Decentralized is the solution with high demand, high up time services for the internet.

Like Google for example. It's also worked great for Torrent and Skype.

There isn't any reason, Set top Boxes, for video aren't doing it right now, but fear and incompetence. When they do, Cable as we know it IS DEAD!!!! Oh youtube may also go by the way side.

They just need to get that couch potato channel flipping going correctly. This several seconds to change channels blows.

If I sound in an off mood maybe my Mc Donald's coffee wasn't hot enough.

I also have a badly explained idea for an OS that does this type of "millions of these boxes each acting as a mini data center"
http://www.dnull.com/os/ Amorphous OS - It came out better in the talk...

Isn't this the whole frigging concept of Peer to peer and the WHOLE Internet FTP Unix bla bla bla back in the 1970 and 80!!!! I mean before PC's were even allowed to play on the Internet as more then Dumb Terminals.

Has the web perverted people view of things so much that when they realize they can use their local PC for more then viewing web pages it's some major revelation.

Some of you need to go read the "Hobbes' Internet Timeline" and learn a bit more about how this network came to be.

Below is a good paper I did on this in 2003.
http://www.videotechnology.com/economics_of_video.htm

2005
http://www.videotechnology.com/startrek/

Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem (v1.2) By William B. Norton
http://www.blogg.ch/uploads/Internet-Video-Next-Wave-of-Disruption-v1.2.pdf

I worked on implementing Error correction codes over IP some time back http://www.ecip.com/

This is what we would call part of a family of Rude protocols that would do reverse Throttling.

All of these ISP are counting on TCP being polite, but it's also counting on the network being passive or at least polite as well.

In our case we originally implemented ECIP and SPAK when we had a 100KBPS video stream and 99KBPS gave us nothing but garbage. Since video is all or nothing. http://www.videotechnology.com/jessem/all_or_nothing.html

But with ISP taking a hostile approach, application writers could also start talking a more aggressive approach in a sort of arms race.

I know everyone has been afraid of this, but I feel that this is indeed a necessary step if some sort if truce is to be reached between USERS and their ISP's. Right now we are really fighting over our rights on how we can use the "last mile" since it's all now been consolidated into the hands of only a few companies. We have already lost our ability to choose and market freedom.

> instead of 'fast' movie leeching ?

    I think this is a terrible assumption.

  Yes many people use P2P for piracy, but it's much more.

  Many companies also use it for Legitimate video distribution.
  Many Linux Distro's use it to distribute ISO CD and DVD ROM images.
  Bit Torrent is a medium for robust large file exchange, HTTP/FTP is far worse, as every time the connect drops the downloads are often resumed at the very beginning and use even more bandwidth.

  See my paper http://www.videotechnology.com/economics_of_video.htm

  With normal streaming and downloads it doesn't scale because the content offerer gets saddled with 1/2 to bandwidth cost on a $ per bit, where end receiver get a flat rate.
  With P2P the end user pays close to 100% of the bandwidth costs, but again this is absorbed by their flat rate.

Nature of the Internet:
  To the average FOX news viewer the Internet is just web (HTTP) hyperlink text browser experience.

  But the Internet is an open communications channel for anything, and far more then http web.

  There is Streaming audio, and video, live web cams, other data feeds, such as weather, news, stock,
  grid computing(SETI at home), a research tool, remote monitoring, telepresence, online gaming, video conferencing, VOIP, VPN, IRC, MAIL (POP3, IMAP, SMTP), Professional Video interchange (digital fountain, digital rapids), professional movie production where masters are sent back daily "daily's", real-time medical imaging, and realtime communication with Supercomputers, realtime automotive diagnostics (tis2web), shared virtual environments, remote robotic control, SSH remote server shells and management, X windows, and so so much more.

  P2P vs things like web(access to wikipedia) priority should be the choice of the customer.
  How they choose to use their bandwidth is their business, you sold it to them, if you don't like it change your sales terms so they can cancel your service and go to someone else that will let them have the service they want.

  In my case I used it as an uplink for live video to replace Satellite transmissions.
Also we are using it from a DVR to a remote backup (CoLo) site for 100's of customers. Again close to 100% peak data getting pushed. It's might as well be P2P, it would look the same, 16 connections pushed 24/7 live video up the pipe (Tube , hehe)

How can you discriminate between my non-HTTP vs P2P. All you know is I am using a lot of bandwidth and sabotage it.
  if you want to create a spit tier where high bandwidth users pay more, that's fine, but offering unlimited flat rate and then sabotaging some users is bate and switch.
  Your not providing to all of your users the service you agreed to provide, just some of them at the expense of the heavy users.

So basically anyone who is a high bandwidth Internet user you trip up, assuming they are pirates and providing a lower quality of service to.

Mean while someone downloading video masters for use with Avid or final cut pro because it is part of their job and why they bought your connection gets identified as P2P because of Bit Torrent. While they use it to do their large file transfers more reliably and faster and to them your service just starts sucks mud when compared to someone who doesn't interfere with BT traffic.

Oh man, I had written a chat room in back 1996 using what I called server push Java Script and nobody paid much attention, although it was on many adult video chat sites. Example at http://www.videotechnology.com/chatroom.html

God damn it. You promised "adult video chat", but there wasn't any. Why would you do this to me? Why?

Oh man, I had written a chat room in back 1996 using what I called server push Java Script and nobody paid much attention, although it was on many adult video chat sites. Example at http://www.videotechnology.com/chatroom.html

    We did many of the same things using that technique that people are doing now in Ajax, interactive games, and database etc using it.

  Suddenly some marketing guy calls it "Ajax", which is almost doing the same thing is all the rage.

I use the Kodicom 4400r board http://dvr.videotechnology.com/ this uses 4 Conexant 878 chips (formerly called Brooktree BT878)
  The default bt878 driver in FreeBSD works but I had to write a small driver to init the video switcher on the board.
  Using very simple code you can capture and process 4 full motion video channels in FreeBSD.

  I there is also the BTTV Linux driver for this board.

  CCTV Cameras can be had for $35 each and the board is $200. for a total cost of $300 for 3 cameras to do motion capture.

  I have used Blinking dual color LEDS on the target very successfully.
  Also retroreflective balls and LED lighting also works well. The $35 black and white versions of these camera come with IR leds for so called "Night Vision" and works great with the 3M reflective tape.
  See http://www.videotechnology.com/old1104.html Retroreflective Materials for more info on that also.

I use the Kodicom 4400r board http://dvr.videotechnology.com/ this uses 4 Conexant 878 chips (formerly called Brooktree BT878)
  The default bt878 driver in FreeBSD works but I had to write a small driver to init the video switcher on the board.
  Using very simple code you can capture and process 4 full motion video channels in FreeBSD.

  I there is also the BTTV Linux driver for this board.

  CCTV Cameras can be had for $35 each and the board is $200. for a total cost of $300 for 3 cameras to do motion capture.

  I have used Blinking dual color LEDS on the target very successfully.
  Also retroreflective balls and LED lighting also works well. The $35 black and white versions of these camera come with IR leds for so called "Night Vision" and works great with the 3M reflective tape.
  See http://www.videotechnology.com/old1104.html Retroreflective Materials for more info on that also.

One of my friend approached me with this Idea back in 2000 and it's was so grotesque, that I designed an entire silent computer based on thermal Conduction.

The design can handle over 300 watts 3.X P4 cpu at full load, + drive + graphics cards and operate at near room temperature.

Just aluminum, drive is in 1" thick thermally conductive Silicon Rubber. (I added stuff to make it conduct heat)

Mineral Oil is just a bad idea. Even in my Aluminum design I have so much criticism about how hard is it to work on, get the parts etc. It's actually easier, but people just can't handle different then the status Quo.

Anyhow A companie was formed http://www.nisvara.com/, never went anywhere in 3 years. We had interest from everyone one though, even free offices from NASA Ames.

It blows away Hush computers or the Zalman stuff.

see http://www.videotechnology.com/old6-03.html Form more info and a Photo.

The cost of Bit Torrent distrubution is orders of magnitude lower cost per viewer then TV.
http://www.videotechnology.com/economics_of_video. htm

Add's can still be viewer and pay for production costs. And better tracking of viewers can be done.

Where Can I find and get into these groups trying to save the show?

I run videotechnology.com and several people have run past the idea of streaming, settop box or p2p distribution of TV shows with sponsor paid adverising as a possible model to resume filming of a high budget TV show. There would be no airtime fees and with things like bit torrent, viewers could be counted and demographics generated.

If CBS were to push for such an option fans could continue to watch and generate revenue for contuning the series just without the Cable/Broadcast and over the internet.

I think something like Star Trek would be a prime candiate for such a high tech move.

If anyone would like to see if we can actualy make something like this happen drop me an E-mail or a line in my chat room on http://www.videotechnology.com/

John

I can't get to the linked article.

P2P IPTV is an Idea who's time has really come. I write about this on my site here

http://www.nisvara.com/

Ok Here is a shameless plug for a company I have been tring to get off the ground for 2 years now.

I had developed a silent PC including the drives, no moving parts, no heat pipes, just a big ass heatsink. But it's the same weight and size as a mini tower. We have 2 patents on the technology.

We also developed a carbon fiber material (with help from NASA Ames) that has much higher thermal conductivity then copper for keeping the cpu cool without fans.

I was tring to find a media center PC vendor to get to use this technology since most have some real heat problems. I talked to Maxtor but they didn't want to present our solution to their customer because it involved changing the design.
You can't have a passive heat removal solution cool below the ambient air temperature, but they didn't seem to get it.

Also talk to RicaVision but they also never moved.

At this point I am trying to work on a open source type of reference design for thermaly conductive cooling solutions and to see if there are any computer makers/Media Center PC companies that would like to work with the inventions I came up with.

The cooling solution was original designed for blade and cluster computers, and works great on a desktop configuration. The drive is 100% silent even with your ear against it and runs cooler then in a fan based solution. It's also water tight! Incase you wanted to clean your computer off with a garden hose.

Photo HERE

Does anyone else some how find that his VX30 might be a rip off of the ogg theora java port. The fact that its listed on this site, right next to the java port of ogg theora is fishy..

Lyons Gate and AMC with their proprietary Digital Theatre Distribution System (DTDS),
is directly going against DCI - Digital Cinema Initiatives that is made up from Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros.

They are fighting for control and standards for the new Digital Cinema.

AMC's approch was very slick, they started puting low res tv add up, and deploying these digital projectors then very quickly are pushing movies out. I can't find any info on what AMC's resolution or projectors or or the Satellite system used.

DCI is using microspace or Huges for it's system and has standardized on 2K projectors 2048x1080 this is about where HDTV 1080p/24 is 1920x1080.
DCI also supports 4K 4096x2160 , but from my visit at there test bed, the USC, ETC center they were using 1024x768 video to drive everything.

I have a lot more written on this at
http://www.videotechnology.com/0904/formats.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0904.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old1004.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0804.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0604.html

Lyons Gate and AMC with their proprietary Digital Theatre Distribution System (DTDS),
is directly going against DCI - Digital Cinema Initiatives that is made up from Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros.

They are fighting for control and standards for the new Digital Cinema.

AMC's approch was very slick, they started puting low res tv add up, and deploying these digital projectors then very quickly are pushing movies out. I can't find any info on what AMC's resolution or projectors or or the Satellite system used.

DCI is using microspace or Huges for it's system and has standardized on 2K projectors 2048x1080 this is about where HDTV 1080p/24 is 1920x1080.
DCI also supports 4K 4096x2160 , but from my visit at there test bed, the USC, ETC center they were using 1024x768 video to drive everything.

I have a lot more written on this at
http://www.videotechnology.com/0904/formats.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0904.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old1004.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0804.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0604.html

Lyons Gate and AMC with their proprietary Digital Theatre Distribution System (DTDS),
is directly going against DCI - Digital Cinema Initiatives that is made up from Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros.

They are fighting for control and standards for the new Digital Cinema.

AMC's approch was very slick, they started puting low res tv add up, and deploying these digital projectors then very quickly are pushing movies out. I can't find any info on what AMC's resolution or projectors or or the Satellite system used.

DCI is using microspace or Huges for it's system and has standardized on 2K projectors 2048x1080 this is about where HDTV 1080p/24 is 1920x1080.
DCI also supports 4K 4096x2160 , but from my visit at there test bed, the USC, ETC center they were using 1024x768 video to drive everything.

I have a lot more written on this at
http://www.videotechnology.com/0904/formats.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0904.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old1004.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0804.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0604.html

Lyons Gate and AMC with their proprietary Digital Theatre Distribution System (DTDS),
is directly going against DCI - Digital Cinema Initiatives that is made up from Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros.

They are fighting for control and standards for the new Digital Cinema.

AMC's approch was very slick, they started puting low res tv add up, and deploying these digital projectors then very quickly are pushing movies out. I can't find any info on what AMC's resolution or projectors or or the Satellite system used.

DCI is using microspace or Huges for it's system and has standardized on 2K projectors 2048x1080 this is about where HDTV 1080p/24 is 1920x1080.
DCI also supports 4K 4096x2160 , but from my visit at there test bed, the USC, ETC center they were using 1024x768 video to drive everything.

I have a lot more written on this at
http://www.videotechnology.com/0904/formats.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0904.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old1004.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0804.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0604.html

Lyons Gate and AMC with their proprietary Digital Theatre Distribution System (DTDS),
is directly going against DCI - Digital Cinema Initiatives that is made up from Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros.

They are fighting for control and standards for the new Digital Cinema.

AMC's approch was very slick, they started puting low res tv add up, and deploying these digital projectors then very quickly are pushing movies out. I can't find any info on what AMC's resolution or projectors or or the Satellite system used.

DCI is using microspace or Huges for it's system and has standardized on 2K projectors 2048x1080 this is about where HDTV 1080p/24 is 1920x1080.
DCI also supports 4K 4096x2160 , but from my visit at there test bed, the USC, ETC center they were using 1024x768 video to drive everything.

I have a lot more written on this at
http://www.videotechnology.com/0904/formats.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0904.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old1004.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0804.html
http://www.videotechnology.com/old0604.html

Hey Publishing in JAVA is practicaly Open Source since the code decompiles back to very clean source with original variable names and everything so most JAVA players are derivative works. See Mocha or JAD for decompilers.

BTW I am assembling a list of all Java streams systems