Re: Multicast on 21CN



"Stuart Clark" <stuart.clark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ic7ab5-ttf.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

What customers do care about is services though, and if Virgin are going to be multicasting an HD channel to their users when they start supporting multicast later this year at the same time as they launch their 50 Mbps broadband package, so people should also be able to get the BBC's multicast streams as well, which should inclube the BBC and ITV TV channels and the BBC HD channel might not be too far over the horizon from being multicast - if Virgin can multicast an HD channel now there's no reason why they couldn't do the BBC HD channel to their customers now either if the BBC let them.


Exactly. There is nothing stopping any ISP (Virgin included) from offering the BBC streams, provided they "talk" to the BBC via multicast.

They don't even need to do that.. its easy to convert an IP stream into a multicast stream.. I used to do it for the demos I did.
BBC technology showed me how once when they leant us £1M worth of kit for a demo. It was easy to find lots of kit that did the job once I knew what I was looking for. I even discovered some of the kit we made could do it . 8-)




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