The Microsoft/ Skinkers P2P live television streaming LiveStation project demonstrated a multi-channel client at the IBC conference earlier in September.
Although not currently available for general testing, the demonstration proved that a product that streams one channel really well can actually scale over multiple content streams.
The Silverlight powered client competes with other P2P live television products including Zattoo. See our previous coverage here for an overview of the various operators in this space. As Skinkers CEO Matteo Berlucchi notes in the video below, LiveStation does not compete with Joost; this is a product that streams live TV and does not do video on demand.
The following video comes from James Clarke.
All these news make me think that I need more broadband channel to my house.
Will this require a UK based user to have a TV License?
I feel so bad about joost and its employees. They just risk for taking VC….
They wasted tons of energy.
P2P occupies lot of bandwidth.
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
funny that the guy distinguishes himself from joost by saying they are fully live… and only live and joost is not live at all… i was under the impression that people had moved on from “live” all the time.. don’t we want content:
* when we want it
* as we want it (channel / method)
its not about “when the broadcaster wants to broadcast it”… sure there will be exceptions, like some sporting matches… but its a limited market…
Chinese companies are more advanced in this P2P streaming area. Check out http://tv.qq.com. Its P2P streaming platform has PCU of 1.65 million.