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Google says web not ready for IPTV

Vincent Dureau, head of TV technology at Google, said that the web will struggle to meet rising demand for high-quality online video. Online video services such as YouTube and Joost are pushing internet capacity to breaking point. Dureau said the internet, as it exists now, was not designed for the transfer of data on the scale required to deliver high-quality video as some broadcast networks and movie studios would like to have happen.

“The web infrastructure, even Google’s [infrastructure], does not scale. It is not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect.” said Dureau. However, Fredrik de Wahl, of recently-launched web TV portal Joost, suggested that infrastructure providers have made great strides to expand network capacity. Only time will tell.

          

2 comments February 9th, 2007

What Joost Plugin do you want to see?

That is the question we asked in our forums and we got back a lot of interesting and unique ideas. Here are a couple:

• A plugin that would allow someone to program Joost when not at a computer and for Joost to be able to record it
• Ability to play on an iPod
• Record the episode or part you want that airs on Joost (like Tivo)
• Windows Vista Ultimate Extra plugin. It could go hand-in-hand with the one that allows you to set videos as the computer’s wallpaper
• One that lets you stream video off of your computer to devices connected to your network
• A feature for HD content for the users with very fast connections
• A set top box to play on a tv. It would be cool if joost works with the Xbox 360 when it gains IPTV ability plug in that let’s me have a channel with my own content(stuff that I have on my computer).
• a plug in I would like to see is one that let’s me watch the channel’s I get through my TV-card within Joost
• a plugin that allows you to create your own channel , like a blog, so you could make your screencast together
• A rss feed reader for the various channel you know a sort of podcast for the people that have a channel,you subscribe to that channel and you get a list of programs in a predeterminate timespan like a TV Guide
• A plugin for Windows Live Messenger (MSN) that shows what you’re currently watching, just like the “what you’re listening to” feature it already has
• A plugin that allows you to record the broadcast straight into an AVI video
• A tool that lets you fast forward through commercials and stuff.
• Save videos to PSP format, or at least be able to stream them to PSP through WiFi or whatever.
• A channel preview, like a chapter selection in some dvds this channel preview must be customizable with the channel we like the most and saved (to a xml file) for send to a friend!

          

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