[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Tom
The cost is relatively small, you need three people picking the what shown on 8 hour shifts (probably already in place), a computer, a fast internet connection (up speed greater than 512kb/sec) to stream the feed to the UK from the Outback and a server in UK (already in place) to stream the output around the UK.

Maybe they just aren't making enough money from it? [/quote]

But I'm sure they could make enough from advertising within the feed like arista said.

[arista]

Yes tell Mr.Grade (ITV CEO)
to even do 5mins of ads every 28mins

It would make big money for the ad company
with a click option.


It would still be great to have live feed.

[Tom]

Originally posted by Red Moon

Maybe they just aren't making enough money from it?

But I'm sure they could make enough from advertising within the feed like arista said. [/quote]

But obviously they aren't and thats the bottom line. There is no point in doing something that isn't turning over enough profit.

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Tom

But obviously they aren't and thats the bottom line. There is no point in doing something that isn't turning over enough profit.

But there are loads of other way to cover the cost, like opening the phone lines for longer.

Like I said it's not a great deal of money, even in the UK I could send out a reasonable feed from a video source on my ADSL line, I getting over 800kbps on my upload speeds which is enough for a web feed if you use the right compression. It's not like they need to send Hi-Definition picture quality to the UK to stream.

[arista]

Grade has it all wrong
I would pay Each week to watch the Live Feed.
and I am sure many of the 8million viewers would pay as well.

It is such a bad time now
we need some fun 'Live Feed' like this.


And I hope Ch4/Endemol Celeb Big Brother
does Internet Feed
as many viewers all over the world could then pay for that.