Monday, August 08, 2005

File-swap TV comes into focus | CNET News.com

File-swap TV comes into focus | CNET News.com: "Jeff Clarke, president of San Francisco's KQED Public Broadcasting, is a fan of Internet file swapping.

For the last several months, Clarke's television and radio stations have been putting content online using a four-month-old peer-to-peer service called the Open Media Network, which gives public broadcasters an affordable way to distribute high-quality versions of their work on the Net.

For now, KQED is doing this with only a few programs--documentaries about San Francisco history or a local park, among others--but more content is on the way. KQED has long experimented with putting video and audio on its Web sites, and the peer-to-peer service now makes it much more affordable to distribute its TV programming online, Clarke said.
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What's new:
TV programmers are starting to make use of file-swapping tools to overcome bandwidth issues and put video online.

Bottom line:
Peer-to-peer technologies are making it more practical to distribute video on the Net, broadening the reach for both TV stations and ordinary folk.

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