Although I don't watch much TV, I've found through The Register this interesting project: TheVeniceProject. It's developed by the same guys that created Kazaa and Skype. It involves distributing tv signals through a p2p network. They are currently on beta and if I'm not mistaken they're going live sometime during next year. (God is it 2007 already? Is next year 2008? Time does fly...).
I think it's a very good idea and that we'll see similar (rip-offs) of this project sponsored by the MPAA (pronounced mafia) and TV networks. Companies all round the world are looking for new ways to deliver content on demand and very targeted ads (as in those viral marketing campaigns you see in youtube). High speed internet connections for consumers have been cheap (or at least not too expensive) for some time now and distributing high bandwidth content trough P2P networks has proven successful (BitTorrent anyone?). So my first point is this: how come no one ever thought of this thing before?
These guys look like they are very young and talented. They are posting their progress on their blog together with a bunch of pictures, and guess what they're using for servers and OS? Ubuntu Linux and Solaris 10 deployed on Sun Fire X2200 servers (just look at the comments, especially the last one). Which takes me to my second point: open source software works and almost all innovation comes from deploying services on OSS platforms. These people are developing what might become the next big thing in video distribution.
I didn't see any indication as to what video protocol they're using for streaming the video/audio content, but my guess is that it might be a hacked version of Ogg/Theora or Xvid, given they're implying that the quality is not as HDTV but more like normal TV (Instant prayer moment: please Lord don't let it be wmv or real or flash or quickbugs!!!). It's not a video download warez nor another file sharing app either. My other guess is that it uses the same technique to get past firewalls as Skype does, so this should be a huge hit. Too bad that the beta program is invite only cause I would have loved to test this stuff myself. If I'm not mistaken, the client runs on bugware only, but if we take into consideration that we have Skype for Linux, Mac and PDA's and this stuff is engineered by the same guys/team, we can rest assured this will be multiplatform too.
Check the Venice project colocation gallery and the blog. UPDATE: and the screenshots!
I think it's a very good idea and that we'll see similar (rip-offs) of this project sponsored by the MPAA (pronounced mafia) and TV networks. Companies all round the world are looking for new ways to deliver content on demand and very targeted ads (as in those viral marketing campaigns you see in youtube). High speed internet connections for consumers have been cheap (or at least not too expensive) for some time now and distributing high bandwidth content trough P2P networks has proven successful (BitTorrent anyone?). So my first point is this: how come no one ever thought of this thing before?
These guys look like they are very young and talented. They are posting their progress on their blog together with a bunch of pictures, and guess what they're using for servers and OS? Ubuntu Linux and Solaris 10 deployed on Sun Fire X2200 servers (just look at the comments, especially the last one). Which takes me to my second point: open source software works and almost all innovation comes from deploying services on OSS platforms. These people are developing what might become the next big thing in video distribution.
I didn't see any indication as to what video protocol they're using for streaming the video/audio content, but my guess is that it might be a hacked version of Ogg/Theora or Xvid, given they're implying that the quality is not as HDTV but more like normal TV (Instant prayer moment: please Lord don't let it be wmv or real or flash or quickbugs!!!). It's not a video download warez nor another file sharing app either. My other guess is that it uses the same technique to get past firewalls as Skype does, so this should be a huge hit. Too bad that the beta program is invite only cause I would have loved to test this stuff myself. If I'm not mistaken, the client runs on bugware only, but if we take into consideration that we have Skype for Linux, Mac and PDA's and this stuff is engineered by the same guys/team, we can rest assured this will be multiplatform too.
Check the Venice project colocation gallery and the blog. UPDATE: and the screenshots!
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muy bueno tu blog... y tu profile, aun sin ser extranjera
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sin recibir respuesta alguna, me despido.
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