It's a way of sending IP packets to multiple hosts, which fits the "broadcast" paradigm much closer than sending the same stream of data to multiple hosts separately.
The average scan of a 22-page book is anywhere between 5-15mb. That's a five or ten minute job on broadband. That could kill your server, though, if even a few hundred people tried to grab a book at once. If the publisher used BitTorrent, though, they could distribute the load over everyone who bought the book. Digital comics, delivered legally overnight...
It'd never work, though. Penises need to be able to touch Wonder Woman, and getting them up to the screen is too much work.
For print quality perhaps, for viewing on a pc? 5mb or less.. much much less. Webcomic style distribution. There's no reason most pages couldn't be under 300k. Also you can release pages incrimentally. Say 3 times a week.. and boom: Comi-Cast.
The current scans I grab from BitTorrent are about this size -- the zipped .CBR/.CBZ archives. You're right, though, the pages could be shrunk and/or compressed much better.
Ow. My head hurts. I think I'm glad I'm not a musician, or I'd get really, really excited about this, and then really, really depressed because I couldn't follow the techtalk very well. But I'm downloading iPodder software anyway, to see if I can feel my way through it. Beyond that, it'll just have to be me and my text....
Okay, I think I have it. I picked a few feeds that looked interesting and now I have some out of breath guy apologising for maybe, possibly offending people in his "rants." Hmmm, that one will have to go....
And just a matter of time and gadgetry improvement before video can be handled the same way.
I'm really looking forward to the day when spoken-word audio files will be searchable, so the 99% of Podcasts that will continue to be crap will be easier to sift through. I suppose we'll still be stuck with trial and error (and recommendations from those folks whose recommendations we trust) for the music, though.
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See http://www.nwfusion.com/details/502.html
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The average scan of a 22-page book is anywhere between 5-15mb. That's a five or ten minute job on broadband. That could kill your server, though, if even a few hundred people tried to grab a book at once. If the publisher used BitTorrent, though, they could distribute the load over everyone who bought the book. Digital comics, delivered legally overnight...
It'd never work, though. Penises need to be able to touch Wonder Woman, and getting them up to the screen is too much work.
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For print quality perhaps, for viewing on a pc? 5mb or less.. much much less. Webcomic style distribution. There's no reason most pages couldn't be under 300k. Also you can release pages incrimentally. Say 3 times a week.. and boom: Comi-Cast.
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The current scans I grab from BitTorrent are about this size -- the zipped .CBR/.CBZ archives. You're right, though, the pages could be shrunk and/or compressed much better.
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I'm really looking forward to the day when spoken-word audio files will be searchable, so the 99% of Podcasts that will continue to be crap will be easier to sift through. I suppose we'll still be stuck with trial and error (and recommendations from those folks whose recommendations we trust) for the music, though.
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. . . by which, I mean, actually viewed on little iPod screens. Of course, as you said, the stuff's already being Podcast.
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.. let me guess, you wish you were a superhero?
(.. then again, don't we all)
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