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To: flickerful who wrote (4775)1/26/1999 10:20:00 PM
From: Glenn Perry  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 17679
 
Video-driven, interactive, community-based, digital narrowcast television network.

That's how Gardy described the concept of TVontheWeb. He stressed the fact that they are interactive, meaning live video conferences, just like the one announcing Ampex's investment, can have viewers participate easily by e-mailing or calling-in questions. Gardy-McGrath also has 13 years experience as a video production house and has the experience and capability to broadcast live events off-site and bring everything including lights, set design, cameras, etc.

It's a great concept - having these many channels for the various small groups of viewers that can't attract enough viewers to justify the expense of getting a cable TV channel. And it's on-demand. Watch only what you want, when you have the time to.

Link to PSiNet is interesting. Heck, they're naming a football stadium after them!

Lastly - Gardy mentioned both they and PSiNet are very interested in what Ampex's video-storage equipment can do for them. Those channels surely must require some hefty server space. Increased bandwidth in the future will only increase storage requirements - they'll be able to get more frames/sec & better resolution.

Yeah, I guess it is a bit more interesting than theorizing about the thermal decay of magnetic media and the "Superparamagnetic limit".