Networks Still Struggling to Host Video
If you’re wondering why so much development is happening in video portals these days, take this down. Video websites feed via upload on video portals like Guba, Hulu, and Youtube. The networks have taken steps to protect their content by encapsulating it inside proprietary software environments.
ABC has had live video feeds via thin client of some of its shows for years now, as well as CBS and NBC. Yet all three of these networks have struggling applications, overloaded websites, and flattened error prone blank white screens on any event. Wherefore no hosting robustness, alphabets?
The day after the premiere of LOST’s episode, the abc main website struggles to load. The saturation black screen is almost 95% blank, and any click gets a white screen with a few html plain wrap links. Does the architecture really by video really kill these sites, or are they poorly designed for their bandwidth?
NBC has wrapped its Olympics coverage in Silverlight, which I was informed yesterday by many system messages could not be downloaded or installed. Yesterday I was informed by ABC’s site I was in another country, not the United States and could not view the video. And CBS stalls every day after a Survivor episode airs.
Frankly, only Fox TV can get it right. Gordon Ramsey wouldn’t have it any other way. But it seems end users can support video portals as well as mega media corps. So buy the video name, launch the portal, and greet your viewers. Because the lines at the source are long.
