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To: Roger Bass who wrote (268)2/26/1998 7:51:00 AM
From: Doug (Htfd,CT)  Read Replies (1) of 5843
 
Roger, I recognize that true "media on demand" (MOD?) will not conserve bandwidth.

However, consider the radio stations that now broadcast over the net. One who tunes to them 'joins in progress' I assume, and participates in the existing stream of content. I suspect that the technology exists to allow 'sipping' of the stream in a way that does not diminish other's access to the same stream. Just like broadcast TV or radio, which is undiminished by its usage.

If that is the case, the economics of networks may dictate that sipping (without consuming) existing streams (replicated on core networks such as @Home) may be far more conservative of bandwidth than demand-and-download MOD. The river runs on, unchanged by those who draw nourishment from it, and nourishes all equally.

Is this a difference between multi-cast and MOD technologies? I may be completely off base here.

Doug (not a techie, but an amateur student of network economics and long on RNWK and WAVO)
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