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Jeff Pulver Is Betting on Internet Video
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Jeff Pulver, the self-described futurist and entrepreneur who started the company that was Vonage's predecessor, is shifting his sights to Internet video, according to the Wall Street Journal: 'Mr. Pulver is creating his own Internet TV show, which he is modeling on Rocketboom, a popular Internet video-blog that broadcasts a three-minute news show daily. He is considering launching a broader Internet TV subsidiary and is weighing whether to invest in several emerging Internet video companies, though he won't name them. Someday he wants to start an Internet reality TV show.' Pulver says, 'The same DNA that disrupted the telecom industry is well on its way to totally revolutionizing the way the TV, film, and broadcast industry is going to be,' adding that he's now looking for 'the Vonage of Internet video.' And by the way, he regrets leaving the Vonage of Internet calling before it got hot: 'I blew it. I had the juice. I could have done something.'"
Considering the performance of the recent IPO, I would think that would be a bad thing...
I think it's a great thing to see the Internet taking over all types of media. We are beginning to see less need for standard brick and mortar establishments, and the ease of finding informaiton has never been so great. However, I don't know what type of acceptance he will find with this new technology. I've seen several programs that air online, but only a select few seem to keep up with the programming...not to mention the bandwidth requirements for the hundreds of millions of people that could possibly try to connect at the same time...that's kinda scary.
Yeah, I know it's part of the spec but IIRC most of the routers on the net aren't configured to pass on multicast packets. That's why the BBC says that you have to be in the UK, and have a net connection from their list of approved partner ISPs. If you're on a different ISP, the packets will be dropped.
Still it's cool that someone out there is trying to do this - multicast rocks. I can't wait for it to become more widespread.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
To get around the current issues without waiting for everyone to shift to IP6, what would be needed is system for video steaming that made use of a p2p network.