I'm trying to watch the spectacular launch videos of the Shuttle on the Nasa website. Seven crazy folk sat in the space-going equivalent of a 1978 Chevy Malibu strapped to a bomb with a wee nozzle at the bottom. (Yeah, they added a CD player and a iTrip, but it's still a flying '78 Malibu.) It's always going to make for a spectacle.
Unfortunately, NASA went for a "streaming" video experience. Indeed, a Windows Optimized one. Which means I can't just download the launch video and watch it. No, I have to sit through a thousand "buffering" messages and herky-jerky broken video. It's totally crap. Rewind and watch without the gaps? Nah, buffer, buffer, buffer.
Streaming is a totally cretinous concept for anything other than live events.
PS -- And people think MS is going to deliver a great IPTV experience? Pfffsst haw haw! All the codec experts in the world aren't going to help you if you don't focus on the basic user experience issues.
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