Hello Everybody,
I was in a business plan competition yesterday. The business plan includes young enterpreneurs in our university coming up with good and feasible business plan. There were a lot of venture capitalists and technology Incubation Center heads in the competition. They were there to decide if they wanted to invest in any of the business plans. Their were three presentation given by the guest speakers. Two out of the three spoke about the way TV and computers were coming to other
(which was quiet shocking because their products were also related to .tv). One guy spoke about video games and an online video game portal. The second spoke about broadcasting which was the most interesting part of the competition. He talked about the effective way of video streaming. He also introduced us to the service he is doing and told us about the patents he has in favor of the fast and effective broadcasting techniques on web to watch video channels. I was so happy to hear this and I knew I had to talk to him after the presentation. When, I went up to him and told him that I was very interested in his service to one of my new video streaming websites. He was very happy cause in the whole audience their were not many who were able to understand his presentation. Because, they couldn’t see the prospective future that a video channel on web might have. He also spoke about creating our own channel (where you could record a video and broadcast) . He has given his visiting card and he is pretty close to the place I stay. I just thought I could share this experience with you guys. I have copied some of the stuff straight from his web below. You can look into it and from their website www.nft-tv.com.
Product Overview
Network Foundation Technologies (NFT) is developing a new kind of distributed networking technology for the real-time broadcast of audio and video media over the Internet at a cost point far below that offered by traditional online streaming media solutions.
Our goal is to provide the network foundation that will enable established content providers (such as television and cable networks) to simulcast their programming over the Internet at a cost point low enough to be supported by the broadcast advertising model.
By dramatically reducing content delivery costs NFT also aims to enable small and medium-scale content producers (such as political and religious organizations, and local and regional news organizations) to reach substantial audiences at a fraction of the cost of cable, broadcast, or satellite distribution.
NFT end-user products are built on top of the NFT Core. The NFT Core implements a distributed broadcast network in which a viewer's computer can act not only as a receiver of a video stream, but also as a repeater - passing a copy of the stream on to one or two other viewers. In this way, NFT utilizes the uplink capacity of end-user DSL and Cable modems that would otherwise be unused. Stream integrity is assured by the NFT Core via its ability to automatically position the most capable repeater nodes in the most critical regions of the network and to reposition nodes that become unreliable to the edge of the network.
NFT-TV
The NFT-TV system can utilize run-of-the-mill cable and DSL modem connections to support broadcasts of compressed video encoded at 320 by 240, 15 frames per second, streamed at a variety of bandwidths. Synchronized audio, along with delivery of various data streams, such as closed captioning, program title, program description, and embedded web links are fully supported.
The NFT system is completely scalable in terms of bandwidth. At the present time, most cable and DSL modems in the US support either 256 or 512 Kbits/sec upstream -- enabling them to participate as rebroadcast nodes in NFT networks ranging from 100 Kbits/sec to 225 Kbits/sec. At 100 Kbits/sec, video is quite watchable, and for most content 200 Kbit/sec is adequate for near TV quality. As Internet users migrate to higher data rate connections, large-scale broadcasts of 300 Kbits/sec and higher become possible. At these data rates, true TV quality and even HD quality become feasible.
I was in a business plan competition yesterday. The business plan includes young enterpreneurs in our university coming up with good and feasible business plan. There were a lot of venture capitalists and technology Incubation Center heads in the competition. They were there to decide if they wanted to invest in any of the business plans. Their were three presentation given by the guest speakers. Two out of the three spoke about the way TV and computers were coming to other
(which was quiet shocking because their products were also related to .tv). One guy spoke about video games and an online video game portal. The second spoke about broadcasting which was the most interesting part of the competition. He talked about the effective way of video streaming. He also introduced us to the service he is doing and told us about the patents he has in favor of the fast and effective broadcasting techniques on web to watch video channels. I was so happy to hear this and I knew I had to talk to him after the presentation. When, I went up to him and told him that I was very interested in his service to one of my new video streaming websites. He was very happy cause in the whole audience their were not many who were able to understand his presentation. Because, they couldn’t see the prospective future that a video channel on web might have. He also spoke about creating our own channel (where you could record a video and broadcast) . He has given his visiting card and he is pretty close to the place I stay. I just thought I could share this experience with you guys. I have copied some of the stuff straight from his web below. You can look into it and from their website www.nft-tv.com.
Product Overview
Network Foundation Technologies (NFT) is developing a new kind of distributed networking technology for the real-time broadcast of audio and video media over the Internet at a cost point far below that offered by traditional online streaming media solutions.
Our goal is to provide the network foundation that will enable established content providers (such as television and cable networks) to simulcast their programming over the Internet at a cost point low enough to be supported by the broadcast advertising model.
By dramatically reducing content delivery costs NFT also aims to enable small and medium-scale content producers (such as political and religious organizations, and local and regional news organizations) to reach substantial audiences at a fraction of the cost of cable, broadcast, or satellite distribution.
NFT end-user products are built on top of the NFT Core. The NFT Core implements a distributed broadcast network in which a viewer's computer can act not only as a receiver of a video stream, but also as a repeater - passing a copy of the stream on to one or two other viewers. In this way, NFT utilizes the uplink capacity of end-user DSL and Cable modems that would otherwise be unused. Stream integrity is assured by the NFT Core via its ability to automatically position the most capable repeater nodes in the most critical regions of the network and to reposition nodes that become unreliable to the edge of the network.
NFT-TV
The NFT-TV system can utilize run-of-the-mill cable and DSL modem connections to support broadcasts of compressed video encoded at 320 by 240, 15 frames per second, streamed at a variety of bandwidths. Synchronized audio, along with delivery of various data streams, such as closed captioning, program title, program description, and embedded web links are fully supported.
The NFT system is completely scalable in terms of bandwidth. At the present time, most cable and DSL modems in the US support either 256 or 512 Kbits/sec upstream -- enabling them to participate as rebroadcast nodes in NFT networks ranging from 100 Kbits/sec to 225 Kbits/sec. At 100 Kbits/sec, video is quite watchable, and for most content 200 Kbit/sec is adequate for near TV quality. As Internet users migrate to higher data rate connections, large-scale broadcasts of 300 Kbits/sec and higher become possible. At these data rates, true TV quality and even HD quality become feasible.
