now they can broadcast the War of the Worlds to the whole globe simultaneously and scare the sh*t out of everyone like they did in the 1930s!
it really would be a transmission from outer space!
I can't help but wonder if TV over the internet did take off, if the entire medium would dramatically change. Think about this - right now we have shows that are 30 mins and 60 mins, with advertising spliced into that amount of time (so the actual amount of content is around ~22 mins and ~42 mins respectively). Regardless, almost all shows are 30 and 60 minutes, due to the nature of the beast - people have to know *exactly* when to tune in, as the show will not be shown again afterwards for some amount of time. Plus, shows cannot be too long otherwise they bump out the other shows - there is a limited amount of time in which shows can be broadcast throughout the day, limiting the length of TV shows.
However, if we were to switch to a content-on-demand style delivery system (bittorrent), and got the episodes through some "centralized" network (essentially a big site w/ a buncha trackers I guess), things would be quite different. There would be no need for shows to be 30 or 60 minutes, as one person watching one show wouldn't bump another person out from being able to watch their show (aka, if your show was 4 hours long, that's fine, because you can be watching your show for those 4 hours while someone else watches something completely different for their 4 hours). Furthermore, shows could actually be five minutes long. I mean, why not? I'm not really interested in watching five minute TV shows, but I bet it'd happen.
There'd be a LOT more content too, especially if it was based on subscriptions of some sort. Producers could make a whole wide variety of shows, and then they could be paid pro-rated depending on how many people are actually watching their shows. Individual producers could make their TV content, and put it up on such a "network," and if it was good enough to catch on they'd have a free and fair chance to actually build up a viewer base. It'd be similar to how the internet changed the publishing of books, etc. It helped reduce the barriers to entry into the market for the small guys.
Anyways, there are my two cents.
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the page just changed. tehre are flags everywhere now for your language. its a game competition website (origen).
What about p-p-p-powerbook!
now they can broadcast the War of the Worlds to the whole globe simultaneously and scare the sh*t out of everyone like they did in the 1930s!
it really would be a transmission from outer space!
this won't nearly fit all my porn.
1. Steal pea sized ball of hydrogen 2. Build $5,000,000,000.00 terawatt/second laser (aka DeathStar) 3. ??? 4. PROFIT!!!
I can't help but wonder if TV over the internet did take off, if the entire medium would dramatically change. Think about this - right now we have shows that are 30 mins and 60 mins, with advertising spliced into that amount of time (so the actual amount of content is around ~22 mins and ~42 mins respectively). Regardless, almost all shows are 30 and 60 minutes, due to the nature of the beast - people have to know *exactly* when to tune in, as the show will not be shown again afterwards for some amount of time. Plus, shows cannot be too long otherwise they bump out the other shows - there is a limited amount of time in which shows can be broadcast throughout the day, limiting the length of TV shows. However, if we were to switch to a content-on-demand style delivery system (bittorrent), and got the episodes through some "centralized" network (essentially a big site w/ a buncha trackers I guess), things would be quite different. There would be no need for shows to be 30 or 60 minutes, as one person watching one show wouldn't bump another person out from being able to watch their show (aka, if your show was 4 hours long, that's fine, because you can be watching your show for those 4 hours while someone else watches something completely different for their 4 hours). Furthermore, shows could actually be five minutes long. I mean, why not? I'm not really interested in watching five minute TV shows, but I bet it'd happen. There'd be a LOT more content too, especially if it was based on subscriptions of some sort. Producers could make a whole wide variety of shows, and then they could be paid pro-rated depending on how many people are actually watching their shows. Individual producers could make their TV content, and put it up on such a "network," and if it was good enough to catch on they'd have a free and fair chance to actually build up a viewer base. It'd be similar to how the internet changed the publishing of books, etc. It helped reduce the barriers to entry into the market for the small guys. Anyways, there are my two cents.