checking out the grand google experiment with indian entertainment – IPL telecast live on YouTube.com. my guess was right, the live streaming of entertainment events wont work in india, at present. the ‘last mile’ bandwidth is too lacking to support live streaming of any kind of minimum quality. here’s how the stream looks like in full screen – pixel-by-pixel (another interesting insight – people are going into full-screen mode to watch this event, while they may watch other videos in standard browser mode). i have a 1Mbps connection. it probably is a lot worse in regular broadband plans, land even worse in shared icafe connections.
desis are quite demanding lot. they want it to be free, convenient, but even with all that, it still needs to be decent quality. just look at the comments on the twitter stream.
