More Live Sports P2P Streaming
New P2P streaming services continue to jump into the market. Add MediaZone to the list. MediaZone missed the World Cup bandwagon and instead focused on tennis, including Wimbledon. The company provides streaming and download of numerous sports contest, as well as other events.
More about MediaZone from their press release follows:
"MediaZone also recently announced an exclusive partnership with The All England lawn Tennis Club whereby the company will serve as the Worldwide Broadband Partner to the Wimbledon Championships, providing live and on-demand broadband coverage of the entire event. The new service, Wimbledon LIVE, is available globally at http://Wimbledon.org/live and will include live streaming broadcasts of over 250 matches from up to 9 concurrent courts. In the United States, MediaZone also partners with NBC Sports, Wimbledon's broadcast home in the U.S., to bring unprecedented depth of coverage on-air and online to American fans.
Wimbledon LIVE is the latest in a series of marquee international sporting events and cultural and entertainment programming available for live and/or on-demand viewing at MediaZone.com. Tennis fans also can watch comprehensive coverage of over 500 global tennis matches including the ATP International series and the WTA Tour live and on-demand in 2006 via MediaZone's recently announced Tennis on the Net channel. Other recent and upcoming events include Copa Libertadores, Latin America's most prestigious soccer tournament through a partnership with Fox Sports, and the 2006 FIM Motocross World Championship. MediaZone continues to build on its leadership in rugby, having signed a 5-year deal to serve as the exclusive broadband broadcaster of the South African, New Zealand and Australian Rugby Unions (SANZAR), offering rugby fans around the world their first opportunity to watch the southern hemisphere's best rugby online.
MediaZone also recently entered into an agreement with AOL whereby it serves as a strategic partner and provider of all rich media content for http://AOL.com/Chinese which offers news, sports and entertainment, including exclusive programs and event webcasts from China. "
how P2P online live video changed the world?
we will do a test this days, more than 50000 users online concurrently
world wide. We estimated the increasing of users concurrently will be
topped 400000 – 500000, based on one streaming server with 100Mbps
uploading speed. Then the new media system will be re-defined, the
server cost of US$4000 will be enough to cover global watchers of more
than 5 miliion( we estimate the 10% online concurrently) , then more
money invested in content making, and immediatly interactive TV could
help to merge the producers and watchers.
Unlike post online TV, TVkoo seems to be as clear and fluent as from
normal TV( for channel with more than 200 users concurrently), and
infinit users will be on if more servers prepared. Then the global
users group might become popular, they could communicate with same
taste of TV show, and the link between them will be more stable.
As you will find in http://www.im.tv, Taiwan people in the whole world are
chartting/discussing while they are watching channel in their native
language. They even voted while watching the live TV lecture of their
president Mr. Chen, with the negative result, 54000 users didn’t
believe him and 4000 think Chen is reliable. The power of internet live
video has been enhanced by P2P technology.
try download TVkoo software here
http://www.tvkoo.com/update/viviplay.exe, most of the channels are from
China. In http://www.EuChannels.net, you could try the P2P video from Norway.
No matter how far, it is still working well.
kkk
http://streamsoftblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/spikes-new-move-with-limewire.html
Here, at Streamsoft, we always like to hear about innovative P2P moves. Michael Iron, the founder of Streamsoft , entered the P2P video field because of its constant innovations and progress. The Viacom-owned cable network Spike seems to be going one important step beyond its peers in its efforts to build an audience. Not only is it making the first episode of the new series “Factory” available in advance on its website and through downloadable video stores, it’s also trying to spread it through Limewire and other file-sharing networks. Without DRM, or seemingly any form of copy protection.