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...making broadband a mass market service is to offer high-quality video, says BBC Worldwide's Crane. "The porn people do that already," he says. "Unless the world is to drown in broadband porn it needs the likes of the BBC." The quality of RealOne SuperPass, accessible to narrowband users too, is already good enough to encourage TV broadcasters to start streaming their content and archived material in return for revenues, he says. Broadcasters like the BBC have entered revenue-sharing arrangements with RealNetworks. But given the European experience with on-demand TV programming, the profit outlook isn't promising...
...this may change, however, as Internet access moves from narrowband (telephones) to broadband (predominantly cable). Cable companies are not required to respect e2e; they are allowed to discriminate. Unlike telephone companies, they get to choose which "new ideas" will run on cable's network. They get to block services they don't like. Already many limit the streaming of video to computers (while charging a premium for streaming video to televisions). And this is only the beginning. The list of blocked uses is large and growing...
...programming mixtures reach us through a variety of pipelines all owned by one of four Great Big Media Companies. These are all exactly alike in their collection of assets, each of them owning broadcast, narrowcast, die-cast, retrocast and cybercast, broadband, narrowband, audio, video, satellite and an upload-and-download phalanx of option-driven interfaces. Each of our Great Big Media Companies has thousands of brands that make us feel all warm and toasty and provide an emotional connection to a past that nobody can actually remember. We love our GBMCs and buy their stocks all the time...
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