PWC Plays Down TV Over DSL

In a new white paper on broadband, PricewaterhouseCoopers has played down the opportunities in delivering TV/video over DSL/IP…According to the paper, the killer application for broadband Internet access between now and 2006 will not be the distribution of professionally produced content such as today’s TV and movies. It will be the
addition of video to existing applications such as conferencing,
messaging and gaming and the development of applications that rely on
user- and community-provided video content. As applications such as
Weblogs make clear, the two-way interactive nature of the Internet
allows consumers to create new content, and broadband will extend this
capability beyond text to video.

Though this consumer-created content may not have much commercial value, it has high sentimental value to the participants, leading to revenue opportunities for providers, whether through production, access, transmission or storage.

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