Re: Nightmare on Elm st - C5

On 3 Apr, 11:15, LJM <use...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One may as well begin with Sofa's letter to uk.media.tv.misc...





On 2 Apr, 23:51, Krustov <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<uk.media.tv.misc>
<LJM>
<2 Apr 2007 22:13:30 GMT>
<slrnf13016.2so.use...@xxxxxxxxxx>

What will tomorrows teenagers say or think when they watch reruns of 24
in about 20-30 years time .

I wonder what they'll say about "reruns" in 20-30 years time. They
might seem like a quaint concept if most media ends up being delivered
on demand, rather than according to a schedule.

Doesnt your 'on demand' vision of the future kinda depend on every
broadcaster allowing what they make to be available via a on demand
service .

If people's viewing habits change to the point that they're choosing
on-demand video over scheduled television (and I think we're only just
witnessing the beginnings of this), broadcasters will have no choice but
to offer their products on-demand -- if they're to survive.

Either way a new delivery and storage method needs to be invented so
that it gets downloaded in the middle of the night and instantly
available (in full) at the touch of a button the next day .

I don't think it's overly-optimistic (between content compression and
network advances) to expect near instantaneous delivery of video
products in 20-30 years time.

HD will be the norm by then and the current pipe limitations just arnt
suitable for the job given everybody and their aunty could have there
own tv channel by then .

But could the man in the street have thought in 1997 that broadband
would do what it does now? Now we don't even think about it . I'd love
to know whats in development at some of the electronics companies!!

Very true. In 2000, I was amazed at the possibility of 512Kbps
broadband, then flabbergasted when I realised I could upgrade to 1Mbps.
Then 2Mbps came along, and I wondered why anybody would *need* download
speeds faster than that. But then ADSLMax arrived, so I signed up for
Demon 8Mbps and struggled to believe speeds like that would be topped.
But in two days time, I'll be on a 24Mbps product (1.3Mbps upstream too)
with Be* (http://bethere.co.uk). I'll probably only get around 18Mbps
downstream due to my telephone line attenuation, but erm...I'm not sure
*only* is the right word. That's bloody fast. =)

..
(It's fascinating to think back fifteen years btw, because I recall
things like paying around £200 for a 14.4Kbps modem because a 28.8Kbps
was out of my price range. People generally didn't believe higher data
speeds could be squeezed out of a telephone line so I was astounded when
56.6Kbps modems came on the market. Never think never, I guess.)
--

I remember paying top money for the Diamond supra express 56K modem -
with friends we'd built my first system , upgrading the 75mhz Pentium
I'd started out with. They were sick as they had 28.8 modems .

.

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