Wednesday, January 17, 2007

P2P-television


Now would be a good time for some of the major media companies to look at new ways to reach audience.
With Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström (creators of Kazaa and Skype) using their skills and experience to develop a way to broadcast video using P2P network, the old fashion way is going to be old school pretty soon.

Joost, aka The Venice Project, will use the same peer2peer way of connecting computers for shared broadband as this guys have done with huge success before.
Instead of limiting the source of media to a huge server (which eventually will run out of resources/broadband when enough users connect), every user will share parts of the media to other users, thus making use of every bit available in every broadband cable around.

I believe this way of network sharing may be just the thing that jolts the larger media companies to think new.

I want to be able to search for programs which meet my requirements and interests, and immediatly be able to see them either on my computer, or on my tv.
Not just at home, but anywhere there's a wireless network available!

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Visit Joost, aka The Venice Project
Read "Why Joost is good for tv" on Wired News asd
Read "Hands on with The Venice..." on Engadget
Read "Kazaa, Skype and now the Venice Project" on BusinessWeek

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