This isn't MPEG-2, or broadcast quality, but when the pipes are fat, Every
cable operator and TV network will be competing for revenues from their archieves(Content)...............................
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TV by the Bit
by Judy DeMocker
5:45pm 31.Jul.98.PDT
FasTV wants to do for television what Yahoo did for the Web: build a central directory for people to search for whatever content they want.
Only instead of sifting through publicly posted Web content, FasTV wants to allow its subscribers to browse closely guarded archives of television shows and news broadcasts over the Web. This has raised the hackles of TV stations and cable companies.
"The cable companies are so scared that this may cannibalize their advertising revenue that they don't want to give me the rights to their programming," said Dariush Gholizadeh, CEO of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, startup.
Gholizadeh figures that every cable operator and TV network is going to compete with him to create searchable archives of their programs, anticipating the convergence of the television with the Internet. He wants to create a huge archive of shows from every channel, giving users the ability to see any sports event, any TV series, or any network's coverage of the State of the Union address. Already, FasTV has the technology to instantly convert existing broadcasts to digital signals, archive them, and make them searchable and navigable over the Internet.
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