[uf-new] Internet radio and TV

[Chris Newell]

At 18:56 25/09/2007, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
>On 9/25/07, Chris Newell <chris.newell at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm interested in exploring how Internet radio and TV stations could be defined semantically.
>>
>> As hAudio appears targeted at individual recordings and collections of content I'm not sure it would be beneficial to the development process, or to the end-users, to add additional complexity in order to support Internet radio.
>>
>> Looking at the station listings out there on the web, there doesn't appear to be much difference between the metadata provided for radio and TV stations but there is a lot in common e.g. streams are often available at different bitrates or using different codecs.
>>
>> Does anyone else have an interest or thoughts in this area?
>
>Not sure if this is completely related to what you are looking for.
>You may be thinking of something else when you talk about "Internet
>TV".

Charles,

Many thanks for the input.

To be specific, I'm concerned about live streams corresponding to radio stations and TV stations rather than individual items of content.  

i.e. real-time versus on-demand

However, there is obviously a lot of commonality between the two.

Chris