Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @07:10PM from the buffering-is-the-new-chinese-water-torture dept.

Lucas123 writes "Sony, SanDisk and several other technology providers have formed a group and proposed a standard that would use predictive software to pre-load content onto mobile devices in order to preempt buffering issues due to bandwidth bottlenecks, which industry experts say will only worsen over time. 'Intelligently coordinating content delivery in advance to local device storage lets consumers enjoy their video, games, periodicals, books and music when they're ready,' said Susan Kevorkian, a research director at IDC. The proposed standard also raises the question: do we really want Amazon downloading everything it thinks you want to your tablet?"

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Bandwidth caps & charges by werdnapk · 2011-02-15 19:23 · Score: 4, Interesting

Are these providers going to cover the charges associated with downloading unneeded data to consumers devices?
Bad idea. by atari2600a · 2011-02-15 19:35 · Score: 2, Interesting

It's been done before & it sucks, especially on low-end devices (this is why whenever I find a Windows rig that has & will never have more than 1GB of RAM, I disable the Superfetch & readyboost services!) What they REALLY need is an intelligent distributed proxy system at every call tower where hits are tallied by region/state/nation, in that order, & pre-distributed accordingly-- pushing it to every device is just fucking retarded.