Comments on: The Failure of the Internet http://dkompare.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-failure-of-the-internet/ media inside and outside the box Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:13:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Chris http://dkompare.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-failure-of-the-internet/#comment-3677 Chris Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:47:19 +0000 http://dkompare.wordpress.com/?p=125#comment-3677 Here's another take on the issue: http://www.videonuze.com/blogs/?2009-01-23/Putting-the-Broadband-Inauguration-s-Flameout-Into-Perspective/&id=2064 Here’s another take on the issue:
http://www.videonuze.com/blogs/?2009-01-23/Putting-the-Broadband-Inauguration-s-Flameout-Into-Perspective/&id=2064

]]> By: ndsuenglish http://dkompare.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-failure-of-the-internet/#comment-3676 ndsuenglish Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:45:23 +0000 http://dkompare.wordpress.com/?p=125#comment-3676 WE actually gathered around a colleague's second screen hooked up to his MacBook Pro. It streamed like a champ (except for a slightly delayed Yo-Yo Ma et. al quartet). Yes, it was the BBC. How 'bout that good old Empire (TM) coming through in a pinch, eh? WE actually gathered around a colleague’s second screen hooked up to his MacBook Pro. It streamed like a champ (except for a slightly delayed Yo-Yo Ma et. al quartet). Yes, it was the BBC. How ’bout that good old Empire (TM) coming through in a pinch, eh?

]]> By: Jason Mittell http://dkompare.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-failure-of-the-internet/#comment-3673 Jason Mittell Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:38:14 +0000 http://dkompare.wordpress.com/?p=125#comment-3673 We have a brand-new high-end building housing our film & media department, with a great screening room with 35mm & HD video - but alas, no cable! So we streamed the CNN.com feed on the big screen with pretty good results - seamless audio, and near perfect video. But I would have much preferred an HD feed with the (almost) guaranteed quality of cable. We have a brand-new high-end building housing our film & media department, with a great screening room with 35mm & HD video – but alas, no cable! So we streamed the CNN.com feed on the big screen with pretty good results – seamless audio, and near perfect video. But I would have much preferred an HD feed with the (almost) guaranteed quality of cable.

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://dkompare.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-failure-of-the-internet/#comment-3672 Jonathan Gray Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:16:06 +0000 http://dkompare.wordpress.com/?p=125#comment-3672 I never knew I could get home from school so quickly -- I ran from my morning class at Lincoln Center, and made it just in time for Biden's swearing in I never knew I could get home from school so quickly — I ran from my morning class at Lincoln Center, and made it just in time for Biden’s swearing in

]]> By: Bob Rehak http://dkompare.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-failure-of-the-internet/#comment-3671 Bob Rehak Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:32:32 +0000 http://dkompare.wordpress.com/?p=125#comment-3671 Derek, my sympathies on the headaches you experienced! Here at Swarthmore the system worked pretty well -- numerous feeds around campus, and a handsome HD projection in our main theater space. It provided a good opportunity to discuss the inauguration as a global media event with my course in TV & New Media, which had its first meeting just minutes after Obama departed the stage. All this aside, I share many of your reservations about, and skepticism toward, new media's promise of seamless, pervasive microcasting, and whether it improves on, supplants, or actually constitutes a retrograde step away from the established material base of television. Your experience suggests that it was precisely digital media's strength of interconnecting large numbers of autonomous data nodes that make the feeds unusable -- an interesting companion to this NY Times story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/technology/19cell.html. Derek, my sympathies on the headaches you experienced! Here at Swarthmore the system worked pretty well — numerous feeds around campus, and a handsome HD projection in our main theater space. It provided a good opportunity to discuss the inauguration as a global media event with my course in TV & New Media, which had its first meeting just minutes after Obama departed the stage.

All this aside, I share many of your reservations about, and skepticism toward, new media’s promise of seamless, pervasive microcasting, and whether it improves on, supplants, or actually constitutes a retrograde step away from the established material base of television. Your experience suggests that it was precisely digital media’s strength of interconnecting large numbers of autonomous data nodes that make the feeds unusable — an interesting companion to this NY Times story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/technology/19cell.html.

]]> By: dkompare http://dkompare.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-failure-of-the-internet/#comment-3669 dkompare Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:04:14 +0000 http://dkompare.wordpress.com/?p=125#comment-3669 It crossed my mind to try the BBC, but I figured I'd run into the UK IP address restrictions. And also: how many feeds do you attempt simultaneously? :) It crossed my mind to try the BBC, but I figured I’d run into the UK IP address restrictions. And also: how many feeds do you attempt simultaneously? :)

]]> By: Miranda http://dkompare.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-failure-of-the-internet/#comment-3668 Miranda Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:59:24 +0000 http://dkompare.wordpress.com/?p=125#comment-3668 Sorry to hear about your frustrations and failures to join the innaguration "live." I too had a class that started at noon (EST). In preparation I got to class 10 minutes early and hoped to log on to CNN.com. No luck. (Busy) Then ABC.com. (Busy) Then PBS.com. (They didn't have it!) Finally--inspiration from abroad. Thank goodness for the BBC! The only upset was that we lost the signal twice--thankfully for just under a second each time. The good news, my students and I found the BBC commentary quite interesting. The bad news, the digital transition is still a rocky road. Ultimately, there's still no better place to watch TV than on a TV. Happy inauguration day. Sorry to hear about your frustrations and failures to join the innaguration “live.” I too had a class that started at noon (EST). In preparation I got to class 10 minutes early and hoped to log on to CNN.com. No luck. (Busy) Then ABC.com. (Busy) Then PBS.com. (They didn’t have it!) Finally–inspiration from abroad. Thank goodness for the BBC! The only upset was that we lost the signal twice–thankfully for just under a second each time. The good news, my students and I found the BBC commentary quite interesting. The bad news, the digital transition is still a rocky road. Ultimately, there’s still no better place to watch TV than on a TV.

Happy inauguration day.

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