Google says web not ready for IPTV
February 9th, 2007
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.
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1. Video Monte Ceneri »&hellip | February 10th, 2007 at 9:40 am
[…] Web not redy for IPTV: Vincent Dureau from Google said that the web is not ready for high definition movies. [source] […]
2. Joostpedia.com » Bl&hellip | February 12th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
[…] On the flop side, there are a lot of speculations on whether this would actually click!!! With Claims coming in from people high up in the technical hierarchy that the web is not yet ready for IPTV (Google. More news on Joostfan), we can only say that time has to answer for the questions we have… […]
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