Comments on: Most Online Videos Are 3-Day Wonders

By: TubeMogul Blog » Talking Heads TV Interview

TubeMogul Blog » Talking Heads TV Interview — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:19:35 +0000

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By: David H. Deans

David H. Deans — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:05:50 +0000

In contrast, most broadcast TV shows are less than one-day wonders. If the networks have been erasing those video tapes and recording over them with newer episodes, then I wouldn’t blame them.

Can’t imagine that there’s much broadcast TV programing that’s worthy of archiving these days. Frankly, most is not worthy to fill the daypart slot it’s assigned in the first place.

My point: perhaps the Google infrastructure challenges pale in comparison to the apparent network TV challenges that lie ahead.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:20:26 +0000

Isn’t YouTube allowing videos up to 1GB now? How is that going to play part in storage issues?

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:02:40 +0000

SMS, yes, video is compressed pretty nicely, but there are companies working to compress video files even more for storage. Check out Ocarina Networks or Storwize. Perhaps instead of less, I should have said more :)

By: sms

sms — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:31:23 +0000

Stacy,

Video is already compressed .. and pretty nicely.
Hats off to those who thinks “zip” will do it once again :-),
and writers who would get paid less if their writeup was “compressed” to remove idiotic and redundant phrases.