Cisco CRS-3 to disrupt Hollywood?
TIME article says claims of router's capability could smash through Tinseltown fortress
By Jim Duffy on Wed, 03/17/10 - 4:18pm.Amazing the alarm bells that hype can sound. Cisco's claims that the new CRS-3 core router's 322Tbps capacity can download every movie ever made in four minutes has Hollywood quaking, according to TIME.
it could be the business equivalent of an earthquake for the likes of Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures.
Hollywood may try to kill this thing like they tried - and failed - with the VCR and DVD, TIME asserts. Combined with Google's plans to deliver 1G to the home, it looks like the perfect storm is headed for Hollywood:
The hard fact is that the latest developments at Cisco, Google and elsewhere may do more than kill the DVD and CD and further upset entertainment-business models that have changed little since the Mesozoic Era. With superfast streaming and downloading, indie filmmakers will soon be able to effectively distribute feature films online and promote them using social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
Promote? How about deliver. That video tab on your Facebook page may soon open up your own virtual movie house from which you order feature-length films, on demand, to be streamed full screen to your interface of choice.
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