June 25, 2008

Vint Cerf: Video streaming to give way to downloading

vintcerfonbeettv.gif Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet and Google's chief Internet evangelist, expects that video will be downloaded rather than streamed over time. News.com reports on his talk on Beet.TV.

"With gigabit for second speed, users could download an hour of video in 16 seconds. "It's like the iPod--you can download music faster than you can listen to it," he said.

Cerf also said that broadcasting, rather than downloading a separate copy to every user, is a good delivery model, and that users will have more control over which ads to watch."

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