Tuesday, March 17, 2009

New high-quality March Madness on Demand (P2P technology?)



If you're a true college hoops fan I don't need to tell you how great March Madness on Demand has been. MMOD, similar to MLB.TV, is one of those things that while you experience it you can't help but say to yourself "THIS is why we invented all this technology in the first place."

The big news this year is that they are rolling out "high quality" broadcasts that are supposed to be tv-quality or better, and they're doing away the waiting rooms. As far as I know they haven't said this anywhere, but those two changes point to a move to peer-to-peer technology which saves them a ton of bandwidth and gives us a higher quality feed. Just make sure your ISP doesn't mind all that uploading.

Anyway, they have a preview up of the new high-quality version. I recommend heading over there and checking it out. Great stuff.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 17, 2009 at 3:45 AM

    HQ version looks awesome. We'll see if it really looks like that on Thursday morning though.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 17, 2009 at 11:04 AM

    No waiting rooms is awesome. This makes me want to get a second computer.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 17, 2009 at 3:33 PM

    Checked out the sample feed. Agree with JasonT, amazing.

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