Hello iPod, Goodbye Broadcast
Tom Nolle asks “Is Apple creating the FCC’s worst fear?” in his column in Network World.
Noelle suggests that delivering video in real time (the IPTV) model may be displaced by a download approach where quality of service (QoS) is largely irrelevant.
[tease]
If consumers want portable, personalized, video experiences, will their as-I-want-it attitude carry over into their home-viewing patterns? The video on that iPod didn’t get there directly; it came through a PC. With all the new home-networking gizmos on the market, surely there are plenty of ways to distribute video from that same PC to home-viewing devices, even TVs. Hello iPod, goodbye broadcast.
[pointer from Jim Soriano]