[Fmpro] Streaming media

[JJB]

Streaming is broadcasting. Downloads are delivered product, like selling 
a DVD or VHS tape. Streams can be captured in some cases with software 
and saved as a download, but that is not the intent of the broadcaster, 
any more than broadcasters intend for anyone to tape their shows.

In technical reality, there isn't much difference except for the 
playback mechanism for a stream is usually not designed to save the 
stream to a file.

  - Joel


Jim Chase wrote:
> Les,
> "I had been led to believe a stream was a broadcast which was also  
> 'delivered' at the exact same time as the broadcast but in the  
> digital medium?  If not, what is a stream?"
>
>      *Streaming media* refers to a method of delivery that plays the  
> media while it is being sent, rather than from a completed download.
>
>      The concept of streaming has been around since the seventies,  
> but it didn't really catch on until the advent of greater bandwidth,  
> and improved codecs.   Now streaming just makes it easier for  
> broadcasters to screw the little guy out of his money, and thousands  
> of times faster!
>
>      Wasn't that long ago when one would spend hours  downloading a  
> three minute audio clip.  ... which would be 8 bit mono, at 11k  
> sample rate!  Remember the "good ol' days"?  I do. ;-)
>
> Jim
>
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