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ABC Experiment Faces Infrastructure Problems

A Financial Times article by Richard Water, via MSNBC, reports that:

The design of the Internet is unsuited to the sort of "live" online television services announced this week by Walt Disney, according to analysts and Internet executives.

If they attract a large audience, such experiments could force the industry to invest in a new infrastructure that is capable of supporting mass-market online video, fuelling a new round of spending for some of the biggest computer systems and communications networking companies, they added.

Disney's announcement this week that it would experiment with "free", ad-supported shows over the Internet marks one of the most ambitious tests yet from a TV distributor, though broadcasters in other countries have launched tests of their own, such as the BBC's experiment with its MyBBCPlayer service.

posted by Fergie @ 4/11/2006 07:45:00 PM