{"id":4350,"date":"2008-01-22T20:24:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T03:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/01\/22\/whats-the-real-cost-of-internet-video\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T20:24:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T03:24:29","slug":"whats-the-real-cost-of-internet-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/whats-the-real-cost-of-internet-video\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the real cost of internet video?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tCheck this article from The Register<\/a> on the cost of Internet video:<\/p>\n

\nUsers want it, but today, the business models give operators the incentive to throttle, rather than encourage, high-bandwidth uses of the internet. MIT calls this the ‘Broadband Incentive Problem’.<\/p>\n

Last July, my company IP Development published research into the cost of 1080p HDTV<\/a> [PDF, 128k] delivered over a UK LLU network and came to a figure of \u00c2\u00a32.10 per two hour film. This research was of interest to a wide community, from ISPs who bear this cost to internet evangelists who believed that we were somehow in the pocket of the big telcos in the Net Neutrality debate.<\/p>\n

(We were not paid by anyone for that research – but the conclusions then and now clearly support the view that Net Neutrality is likely to neuter the internet.)<\/p>\n

The point is that such figures are not economically viable, and if this is the best the net can do, then so long and thanks for all the fish…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And note the utilization graph, with spikes at odd times of the day.<\/p>\n

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Check this article from The Register on the cost of Internet video: Users want it, but today, the business models give operators the incentive to throttle, rather than encourage, high-bandwidth uses of the internet. MIT calls this the ‘Broadband Incentive Problem’. Last July, my company IP Development published research into the cost of 1080p HDTV … Continue reading “What’s the real cost of internet video?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-18a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}