Comments on: Season's over, so Cuban cheers for HD

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban high-fives high-definition sports viewing and boos slow movie downloads.

[nmarmol1]

5.7 Billions with a B

5.7 Billions with a B

[phoenix888]

surprising

This blurb of Cuban's is purely to promote HDNet, not HD technology at large. He makes it sound like the only relevant sports are the ones that his network just happens to broadcast (hockey/soccer). The lack of interest in hockey and soccer is totally unrelated to the previously unavailability of a more rectangular viewing format, people just don't care about those sports period.

[disco-legend-zeke]

Brown may be faster than Net, but not cheaper.

We experimented with average consumer connections, and a full 24 P 1920 X 1080
HD movie can be downloaded in about a day.

At 10 cents per GIGABYTE, (a very high-end estimate) the delivery cost would be about $2

Less then second day US Mail. The advent of 802.11N and Microsoft AVALANCHE will reduce that cost and delivery time by at least one order of magnatude.

The studios will embrace Microsoft's content control system. Because the owners can control (and monitor) each placback of their content, they will finally breathe a sigh of relief, and start tracking down guys that shoot off the screen, etc.

HBO is already shipping dailies between Rome and Hollywood Post production Facilities using Secured Channels, but still get a little green about the gills about the I-word. The present content delivery system for 4K digital movies to the theatre is hard drives by UPS Just as cubian says.

But once the theatrical run is over (a week or two these days) All HD content distribution systems will depend primarily on good encryption, and less on physical security to prevent leakage.

I am personally biased toward WMV. It worked well in our tests, its a good business model, a studio can throw away Blue-Ray disks out of planes (plenty of ex AOL experts available) with free previews on them, and consumers will visit a website for a license to view it.

[insert net neutrality rant here] the very ability for Internet Radio and TV services to exist will depent on net neutrality.

[ashgilpincom]

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