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Originally Posted by James Henry
Native muticast isn't really going to be something that turns ntl on, as they are after all a provider of TV services. Hopefully they'll move to 'switched' CATV services which will allow more efficient use of their spectrums and permit more VoD options.
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True but what a lot of people forget is that it's not just used for TV / video conferences. Software patches and the like can be distributed via this method for minimal-impact updating. Imagine if something popular like World of Warcraft was to use multicast carousels instead of bittorrent for its patches. Ok this isn't likely to happen anytime soon but technically it's a good solution.
And regarding VoD you can pretty much guarantee that:
- It'll either be STB only, or:
- Will involve lots of DRM which breaks horribly
- Won't work under MacOS
- Won't work under Linux
- Probably won't work under Windows either because it'll keep crashing.
- They'll use M$ services rather than something decent (hmm... BT springs to mind here too).
Anyway don't know why I'm still up and ranting on the forums... off to bed for me.