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Blog Torrent and TiVo for the Internet
Chris Holland writes "On the heels of the recent launch of the preview release of Downhill Battle's Blog Torrent, Nicholas Reville further articulates his vision of a "TiVo for the Internet" in an interview by James Enck for The Broadband Daily. Nicholas touches on the P2P promise, various players, revenue models, and the healthy challenges coming Big Media's way."
You should see what Micah Beck is doing with IBP. Can anyone say "Distributed PVR?"
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
I'm continually suprised at how many people are jumping on the .torrent and eMule bandwagon. Over Thanksgiving, my mother (not a techno-elite) told me that she had a secret... and was pirating Audio Books off the internet using such tools. It completely blew my mind that my mom though of herself as a "hacker" and loved the idea.
What ever happened to the days when my family couldn't even understand the basics of web pages? I guess that when the tools are so incredibly useful, and so easy to install/operate, it quickly becomes a prevalent technology.
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FTA: We ultimately want to see internet TV Channels that download video in the background and let you watch at your convenience (a TiVo for the internet).
Why do you need internet channels when there's a perfectly legimate tv network already in place? I use Azureus as my Bittorrent client with a plugin to import any torrents from an RSS feed that match my criteria. Although I've never actually used TiVo I think the basic premise is the same, record the shows you want automatically and watch them whenever you have time.
A Tivo for the Internet is about as useful as the above. Use your browser cache, IM history, email storage options, etc.
Well, Tivo doesn't merely record TV shows. It also finds shows you might be interested in and takes the liberty to grab those. So what this Tivo for the internet could do is basically watch what sites you visit, and if you accidentally click on a kiddie porn link, it brands you as a pedophile and helps you get arrested. I, for one, would feel completely safe using it :)
A Tivo for the internet is much more useful than the above things. For one thing the Tivo already runs on 'the internet' as that is where it picks up its program information from. But more to the point this is about the technically feasible means of implementing TV on demand. Tivo by itself is nice enough in that it time shifts some of the shows that you would like to watch and happened to know about ahead of time. But what about shows that you didn't know about? Why not go fetch them online after the fact from someone who happened to grab a copy? Or how about pretending that you have an infinitely large capacity disk drive and that you can record any number of shows at the same time via using P2P to augment your storage capacity? Too many shows on at the same time? No problem, just record one and grab the other from someone else. Curious about the buzz on some new show that you missed and didn't record? No problem, just download it and see if it interests you. In the mood to watch Orgasmo or some other hard to find movie? No problem, someone out there will have archived it and have it ready to go.
Michael
I like the fact that they are trying to make p2p easier for content creators. Once this has been done and a quality filtering process has been established...look out TV. I agree that something like this could make a dent in TV. Not overnight, of course, but the impact will be felt over the next few years.
Have you seen Ironstayn vs Supergovernment yet?
Do you have access to your own limo, if you don't maybe you should steal one.
You might want to re-read the great-grandparent post. Substitute 'stealing limo' for 'stealing purse' if that makes it easier.