Comments on: Google’s Net Neutrality Flap: Think HD

By: krae_on

krae_on — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:09:54 +0000

this all makes sense in a world where we are stifled by internet speeds when it comes to watching our youtube videos in HD.

in actuality, even for premium HD content i don't have to wait for buffering or anything, because internet technology is such that even with the overly complex wiring of the net i am still getting more speed than i can use.

a rewiring isn't needed, and simply opens the web up to exploitation from large companies.

By: Neal Page

Neal Page — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:02:14 +0000

I miss the connection to net neutrality, but what Chris brings out is a key point. The infrastructure required to deliver tons of video, and particlarly HD, is essential for successful delivery of content to make the net a viable, reliable distribution channel for high-qualaity video that people will watch. YouTube has the experience of high volumes of crappy UGC, and this requiers a lot of uumph under the hood. Now add solid a killer network infrastructure, better encoding to get HD to 2Mb, and arrays of automated transcoding capabilities the game changes. Drop in professional content and connections to TVs, and you have a full-on broadcast network infrastructure completly bypassing traditional b-cast networks. Chris is paying attention to an overlooked but critical component of the next-gen internet, and that is the infrastructure required for quality streaming. We discuss these and other related topics at http://www.inlethd.com

By: Neno Brown

Neno Brown — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:47 +0000

Googles cache move solodify's a monopoloy on VOD,

If this service was open to all players in the VOD game then good but it is'nt; so we have a world dominated by the usual traditional broadcast parasitic behaviour of owning content creators copyrights and restrictions to boot.

Google has their dominance in the VOD field because they forged that path, the same path anyone can take, only if they cut deals with ISP's for google edge cache servers, then they effectivly control web tv.

Not everyone can laydown the financial weight to achieve this, effectivly google hands power to the ISP to monetize the start-ups in the VOD field further creating barriers to entry.

These barriers should not effect mankind who need to advance through knowledge and creativity.

If google does this, they become a hybrid-Microsoft.

By: Neuromancer

Neuromancer — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:05:14 +0000

deploying a cdn has nothing to do with the network nutrality issue