On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2009/5/31 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
Wikipedia
over TV would never work. There isn't the bandwidth for it.
So only broadcast a subset.
A very small subset.
A single channel can broadcast over 5Mbps. That's 52 gigabytes per day,
enough to broadcast all of Wikipedia in a few days on one channel, and all
updates as they come in live on a second channel.
TV's with hard drives are a pretty new in the developed world and
presumably all but non-existent in the developing
world
Who said anything about using a TV?
So, you would have to give people these hard-drives,
so you might as well fill them before you hand them out. So, what you
are suggesting is the same idea as Brian suggested but with the
ability to update articles over TV transmissions - not a bad extension
to the idea, but it's the same basic idea.
Thanks. I also suggested not using hand-held devices, though. Too
expensive.
By the way,
I'm not really sure what you mean by "TV is a broadcast
medium". But presumably anyone without Internet access but with TV
access
is receiving the TV signal through a broadcast,
so I can safely ignore
this
nitpick.
By "broadcast medium" I mean a one-way transmission of information.
I don't know about yours, but my TV uses two-way transmission. So a
statement that "TV is a broadcast medium" is just not correct. True, it's
probably correct in the vast majority of situations, but, blah blah blah, I
think you see what I'm getting at...
The TV people choose what you broadcast and you just choose to either
pick up what they send or don't. You can't
request specific
information like you can online.
Umm, yes I can. But like I said, I was nitpicking. TV isn't a medium, and
it isn't necessarily broadcast.