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Mr. Baird (invented tv)
Mr. Moore (moore’s law)
Mr. Berners Lee (web)
Long Tails
Wisdow of Crowds
more bandwidth
digital television, more choice
Freeview (30 digital tv channels, some audio) as an API?
Rich
Open
Well structured
Scalable
Very High Availability
Accessible
Proven
License?
Documented (closed standard)?
Disk storage is also increasing exponentially
1TB stores 4 channels for a week
television is a very inefficient means of distributing information
you miss a lot of the things you would like to watch
Suppose you could record EVERYTHING (Time Machine)
When you have so much choice existing TV interfaces do not cut it
Need better metadata
People like to browse by actors ‘stuff with X in it’
Recode to MPEG4 -> 1TB stores a channel for 3 months
made an internal site for BBC use of all programs with a web based frontend
channel information is worth saving because it has a brand associated with it
social scheduling proved to be very popular
Yahoo! term extractor to generate tags for entries
closed beta, would have been too popular for general use
(So people want this kind of stuff. What are we going to do to give it to them? ~Alper
Why is it illegal for people to pool their resources?)
Broadcasters would want to incorporate metadata to enable people to find their programs. You want people to come to your program.
