It was about time !!!
One of my passion's is soccer, no doubt, and to follow the Chilean league or other big games from elsewhere was really difficult... basically it was listening to the local radio's through the internet... until streaming and P2P video transmission started.
For the world cup of 2006 (Germany) I watched almost every game in Singapore. It was fair in quality, and allowed me to watch the games at 3am at my dorm... So thanks to SOPCAST for that.
After some years of taking advantage of the different software available in order to watch sports, the distribution model has changed. The stand alone programs have been replaced by simple Flash-based peer 2 peer and the question was all the time in my mind... Why the hell the TV channels did not provide their programs based on a subscription, or in pay-per-view methods ???
Is incredible how in the internet people and the open source/ pirates/ hackers/ developers go one (or in fact 2 or 3) steps ahead than the industry... where are the visionary managers ??
Well all of this thoughts came to me because I was really happy to see that the "soccer channel" (www.cdf.cl) from Chile is creating an international subscription package in
order to watch the games.
Why should I pay for something that is already available for free ?
Well the quality I assume is going to be different, much better. It should be reliable and not too expensive I hope. It is nice to see that mid-size companies are taking advantage of technology.
One of my passion's is soccer, no doubt, and to follow the Chilean league or other big games from elsewhere was really difficult... basically it was listening to the local radio's through the internet... until streaming and P2P video transmission started.
For the world cup of 2006 (Germany) I watched almost every game in Singapore. It was fair in quality, and allowed me to watch the games at 3am at my dorm... So thanks to SOPCAST for that.
After some years of taking advantage of the different software available in order to watch sports, the distribution model has changed. The stand alone programs have been replaced by simple Flash-based peer 2 peer and the question was all the time in my mind... Why the hell the TV channels did not provide their programs based on a subscription, or in pay-per-view methods ???
Is incredible how in the internet people and the open source/ pirates/ hackers/ developers go one (or in fact 2 or 3) steps ahead than the industry... where are the visionary managers ??
Well all of this thoughts came to me because I was really happy to see that the "soccer channel" (www.cdf.cl) from Chile is creating an international subscription package in
order to watch the games.
Why should I pay for something that is already available for free ?
Well the quality I assume is going to be different, much better. It should be reliable and not too expensive I hope. It is nice to see that mid-size companies are taking advantage of technology.
