Poor septics, viewing on tape delay ...

In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:
One very popular sport is American football. That has
frequent breaks which nicely fit the broadcasters' needs for commercial
breaks.

Thought it was changed to suit the TV's requirements?

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On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:10:17 +0100, Graham wrote:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/nbc...ning-ceremony/

Was the delay really implimented with spools of tape?

Of course not. It was "tape" which really means disk these days.

Would internet video streaming really be imposible without the concept
of the Worldwide Web?

No. Streaming data is nothing really to do with the 'web', just like
email (or most other things) is nothing to do with the 'web'.

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:12:45 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:
One very popular sport is American football. That has
frequent breaks which nicely fit the broadcasters' needs for commercial
breaks.

Thought it was changed to suit the TV's requirements?

I think that is the case. American football already had points at which
the action stopped and breaks could be taken. Further "adjustments" were
made.

It would not be as easy to do that with soccer.

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Graham. wrote:

Would internet video streaming really be imposible without the concept
of the Worldwide Web?

Yes, but you might not be able to find it! The original concept of the
web was as a mechanism for people to find resources, particularly
resources accessible over the internet. (Of course, it is now just
another advertising medium!)

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:12:18 +0100, "Steve Terry"
wrote:

Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:10:17 +0100, Graham.
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:20:14 +0100, Adrian C
wrote:
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Would the Internet still exist without the WWW?
Steve

What do you think you are posting on?
Usenet was on the net long before the WWW

Steve Terry

I know that. I was using the Internet in the early 70s before Usenet
existed. Now it's the WWW that keeps the Internet alive. Most WWW
users think it is the whole of the Internet.

Steve

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In article , Brian Gaff
writes
I cannot believe the US did not carry it live. Surely it must have been on
one of the many satalites over there?

Crazy.

They also cut the tribute to the 7/7 victims (ie. people who were in the
main Londoners, murdered the day after London were awarded the Games) to
interview Michael Phelps!

Their own little protest that there was no minutes silence at the start
of the ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the Munich games, where
the Israeli athletes were killed. Shows who really runs NBC!
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In article , Stephen
Wolstenholme writes
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:10:17 +0100, Graham.
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:20:14 +0100, Adrian C
wrote:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/nbc...ning-ceremony/

Was the delay really implimented with spools of tape?

Would internet video streaming really be imposible without the concept
of the Worldwide Web?

Would the Internet still exist without the WWW?

It's probably arrived earlier without World War Wun. ;-)
--
Kennedy

In article ,
Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

I know that. I was using the Internet in the early 70s before Usenet
existed. Now it's the WWW that keeps the Internet alive.

That's an odd way to look at it. What do you think would have
happened to the internet if the WWW had not come along?

It's conceivable that some other, non-IP based, hypertext system -
perhaps a proprietary Microsoft one - might have become popular, but
that doesn't seem very likely. Much more likely is that there would
have been some different IP based web.

-- Richard

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:34:09 +0100, David Woolley
wrote:

Graham. wrote:

Would internet video streaming really be imposible without the concept
of the Worldwide Web?

Yes, but you might not be able to find it! The original concept of the
web was as a mechanism for people to find resources, particularly
resources accessible over the internet. (Of course, it is now just
another advertising medium!)

And, on the other hand, bespoke apps are being written to do a job
that a generic web browser could already do do

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

In article , Richard Tobin wrote:
I know that. I was using the Internet in the early 70s before Usenet
existed. Now it's the WWW that keeps the Internet alive.

That's an odd way to look at it. What do you think would have
happened to the internet if the WWW had not come along?

It's conceivable that some other, non-IP based, hypertext system -
perhaps a proprietary Microsoft one - might have become popular, but
that doesn't seem very likely. Much more likely is that there would
have been some different IP based web.

The Windows 3.1 help system used hypertext, so the concept is not
original and has been around for some time. Extending it beyond a
single computer was an idea waiting to happen.

Rod.
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