The Next Culture Wars

Eli Noam, perhaps the most erudite of technology professors/commentators, has a slightly different twist on transmitting VOD over IP: “For electronic media, transmission technology is destiny: it defines cost, content and business models. The costs of TV distribution over the internet are more than 40 times greater than the distribution cost of a cable TV channel. This is because the individualisation of the internet requires significantly larger transmission resources than simultaneous broadcast-style transmission. Hence internet TV can function economically only as a premium medium.”

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