audio/video again

Geert Jan de Groot GeertJan.deGroot at ripe.net
Tue Aug 6 09:07:20 UTC 1996


On Mon, 5 Aug 96 16:41:48 PDT  Henk Smit wrote:
>   Yesterday I watch a "cyber-TV-program" on US TV. They showed a "cool
>  screensaver" that was continuously displaying new stock quotes it was
>  getting over the net. And another screensaver that displayed video
>  pictures of the Olympic Games.
>   What worries me here is that people are developing applications that
>  use (lots of) bandwidth, even when people are not even using their
>  computers.

Shouldn't be a problem if people have to pay for their traffic.

Assuming that there would be a way to listen to foreign radio
stations per telephone, how many people would make long distance
calls to feed their 'radio'?

geert jan





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