Comments on: Google: Web is OK for TV (despite what you may have read)

By: ¿Está el mundo listo para la WebTV? | estotal.com · : ·

¿Está el mundo listo para la WebTV? | estotal.com · : · — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:36:44 +0000

[...] tal punto que pocos días después de decir que Internet no está pensada para la TV, se retractaron con meridiana claridad para evitar reacciones adversas de sus inversores tras la compra de YouTube. Yo desde luego estoy [...]

By: scouta blog » Blog Archive » Google Ready For TV

scouta blog » Blog Archive » Google Ready For TV — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:01:48 +0000

[...] at Giga Om, has dug into the article a lot more and discovered the quote is out of context. “Some remarks [...]

By: Robert Stone

Robert Stone — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:37:00 +0000

Google brings up a good point. However, it is more appplicable to mobile video and mobile multimedia. MobiTV, Verizon and CNN all had big news this week regarding their mobile television rollouts.

However, the big pink elephant in the room that no one is talking about is the inability of the WIRELESS networks to scale and met this issue. Today’s wireless and cellular networks are not able to even meet the demands of voice and data. What happens when billions of new users start doing real time video and real time multimedia?

How pissed off are you going to be when the video breaks up or you drop the connection just as the winning goal gets scored? There are a bunch of companies working to fix this problem – to ensure scalability of the next generation wireless architecture. Check out companies like Kontron, Artesyn and Enea http://www.enea.com.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:17:35 +0000

MnZ, that is a good point and I find it perfectly reasonable to be against specific "Net Neutrality" legislation. What I have a problem with is being against the true concept of Net Neutrality.

By: MnZ

MnZ — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:24:16 +0000

There is a big difference between IPTV as proposed by major telecoms and TV-Over-Internet — the former having nothing to do with the Internet at all. Trying to conflate the two to make an anti-Net Neutrality case is laughable.

Jesse, I have read the proposed Net Neutrality bills, and most do tend to conflate the two issues.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:01:08 +0000

Some of you anti-Net Neutrality guys are so full of crap. Why would you want to do broadcast over the Internet? Most people already have a choice of three broadcast providers: free over-the-air, cable, and satellite. There's hardly a business case for new entrants that involves the Internet. The point of TV-over-Internet is not so that we can all tune in at 9 pm on Thursday to watch CSI from a different service provider but so that we can watch programs on demand. The idea is to have a different business model than broadcast. There is a big difference between IPTV as proposed by major telecoms and TV-Over-Internet -- the former having nothing to do with the Internet at all. Trying to conflate the two to make an anti-Net Neutrality case is laughable. Net Neutrality is about how a network handles Internet packets, period.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:32:45 +0000

when this story broke, I couldn’t help but think about all Google’s datacenters and fiber backhaul and exactly what their plans are – PBS’s Robert Cringely has one idea, which is that Google knows that the web’s infrastructure is headed for a bandwidth-crunch and is positioning itself as a caching gatekeeper – http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit20070119001510.html

in that case, certainly their position on net neutrality hasn’t reversed – it just looks like a smart business play – tie ISPs’ hands and then cash in on the infrastructure they’ve amassed

By: Paul M

Paul M — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:47:38 +0000

Dureau was right first time - ask any network engineer - he just got slapped for telling the truth.

The PR tried to change the discussion from "the net is broken for TV" to "our TV infrastructure is k3wl!" It may be, but that's not what Dureau was talking about. It's sad to see GigaOM buying the spin, and shilling for Google.

By: Omar Javaid

Omar Javaid — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:41:39 +0000

Vincent Dureau, the executive quoted, was just hired from OpenTV. He was the CTO there. I don't think he was quoted out of context.

By: Guy Inkorea

Guy Inkorea — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:07:42 +0000

I live in Korea and we have just had what the company told us is internet TV installed. I gotta tell you, it ain’t no picnic! Our 100MB rated service was great until the installation. 2.8 MB/s p2p downloads – uploads not far behind.
The problem is the Hanaro supplied router is killing our speed and quality! Bad configuration? Then someone ought to teach the Hanaro team how because at this time, they are still scratching their heads.
It seems as though Hanaro has decided volume is better than quality of service, pumping as much info through as it can and eventually the right info will arrive intact.
Picture quality is fine but the ads they run while waiting for the show to download kind drive me nuts!