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To: Rainmaker who wrote (1861)2/18/2002 1:31:09 PM
From: BWAC  Read Replies (1) of 1944
 
Speaking of the race, and broadband.

Still searching for applications, which work, before broadband will become a must have.

Take the race. Through Nascar.com and Realnetworks they have a pay service ($29 for year) where you can get something called Racecast. It kinda updates the running order lap by lap, has some special highlight videos, and the (real reason for being) ability to select and lock in the incar audio/scanner of the driver of your choice. As opposed to last years free, hardly ever worked, no choice pot luck scan of the whole field incar audio.

Sounds good right? Wrong. System crashed at the onset of the race. Never did work right. Partially came back up midway through. But scanner conversation was about 2 minutes behind the telecast. And the rest of the features didn't work.

So there is a waste of a potential broadband application.

Not to mention that a natural progression might be selecting in car scanner audio COMBINED with incar video. Watch the race from your favorite drivers car sorta thing.

But if the infrastructure can't support the live audio portion, it can't even come close to supporting the live video in the future? Right?

People would obviously pay for things like this. If it only was available, and worked. Until then broadband will suffer. As will the last mile.
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