[opendtv] Re: Streaming Media.com: What is Streaming?
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 02:47:24 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Yup. Now read the first part of the article Bert. It tells you
what kind of services were being offered and how the Internet was
making it possible to offer niche services that could never gain
a large enough audience on the traditional TV delivery networks
Please quote where it says this, Craig. It doesn't say anything of the sort.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=74052
What it does say is that broadcasters started using Flash quickly, and that by
2007, to try to "stem the tide," Microsoft introduced Silverlight. So, what do
you suppose all this traffic created by the "broadcasters" was?
"Via VP6, Macromedia (and then Adobe, who acquired Macromedia in 2005), could
match Microsoft's video quality in a brandable player that could be integrated
with the rest of a Flash-based site, and was truly cross platform and near
ubiquitous. This proved irresistible to most broadcast and entertainment sites,
... Microsoft released a Flash competitor called Silverlight in 2007 to stem
the tide, ..."
NOWHERE in the article does it tell us that the content oligopoly
was streaming popular program length shows in 2005.
And it also doesn't talk about the engine options offered in Ford Mustangs of
the day. The article tell us that Flash was used so much that Microsoft was
convinced to get into the game. So clearly, this must have been going on well
before 2007. The article doesn't get into details of what content was being
streamed.
On December 7th 2007 Adobe announced Flash Player 9 update 3,
which added support for h.264.
Just like I said, during Version 9. So this means that for sure, before
December of 2007, I was streaming those full length episodes. Because the
glitches were not happening initially. Works for me. The congloms have been
offering full length episodes online, for about 10 years now, give or take a
year.
Not at all. The h.264 standard was released in May of 2003.
It didn't appear in Flash Player until the end of 2007. That was years later
than 2005, Craig, and even more years later than 2003, when VP6 and H.263 were
used in Flash. In trying to determine when the congloms began using the
Internet for full length episodes, the only reason to mention H.264 is that I
was watching these before Flash got H.264. So there you are. Before December of
2007 for sure.
I found a streaming media article on Wikipedia that mentioned online on demand
for UK TV, in 2006. So that's just about 10 years ago. It only mentioned that
in the US, by 2010, 80% of households had already been using such Internet
service.
Bert
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