Re:What's new? (Score 1)

Yeah, it was done in 1997, when I demonstrated HDTV content inside (64-bit-sized) Quicktime files, being streamed over IP-on-HIPPI. We (SGI) showed this at IBC that year, as well as at the next NAB. We also showed RICE-encoded video (no-loss compression) on 100Mb ethernet. We were serving it all from an O2000 with a big RAID array for the content. Not only did it play in streaming mode, but you could do frame-by-frame navigation and scrub. A couple of video editing companies were using it in their products, and there was at least one competing network technology for the same result, as well. It was all for sale. No one really wanted it then, either, and I doubt that many people want it now. (BTW, the hard part about VOD isn't the network bandwidth, it's the disks.)