Finally!!! The TV studios are getting the idea! After writing about it back in January, the NRK’s – Norwegian broadcaster – project has been a HUGE success in Norway with a population of 4.5 million – they have had 80,000 downloads of their TV series “Nordkalotten 365″ was put online in Hi-Def (MPEG-4) episodes and distributed via the P2P BitTorrent protocol.
As reported on the Miro (GetDemocracy player) blog:
“The initiative has been a huge success on every front —
viewers love the super high-resolution picture and most people have
reported incredibly short download times (given the file sizes).
Furthermore, viewers have been downloading the episodes en-masse
(around 80,000 times in the past 3 weeks). To top it all off, NRK
hasn’t broken the bank to deliver the goods; in fact, they
haven’t even broken a sweat.
To-date, NRK has paid a total of $350 for storage and delivery of
the entire series. This information was disclosed to me by project
manager Eirik Solheim; he also estimated that the bandwidth bill would
have been roughly $8,000, had NRK chosen a more traditional delivery
method.”
Hmm, if only there was a media client that could handle BitTorrent, media playback and RSS. Oh wait! There is! Miro.
Slowly but surely, the TV studios are getting the idea that P2P helps them as well as the users in the end. The studios save money by offsetting the distribution costs and the users help spread the content. It’s a win-win situation!
Miro itself is based on the open-source Mozilla/XULRunner framework and it’s development carried out the Participatory Culture Foundation who the Mozilla Corporation has a member in John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla Corporation.
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13/03/2008 at 04:24
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04/04/2008 at 20:39
I just downloaded MIRO, that itself was woth the visit. I do have a question. A friend of mine told me about a usb adaptabe hd antenna and i guess software that lets you watch local hd channels on your laptop. You are also supposed to be able to record and burn to DVD.
Have you seen or heard about this?
04/04/2008 at 23:11
One would assume that you could freely record it with said antenna and then watch it back with Miro, I’ve heard of no other such problems with this.