Cost of transmitting content
International Herald Tribune, The End User: Innovation from BBC . What’s interesting about this article is the discussion of the economics of TV distribution from Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s director of new media and technology. The cost of transmitting a year’s worth of one channel’s content is:
- Several million dollars for standard distribution
- $1.24 million for satellite transmission
- $22,000 over the Internet
As we make the shift to IPTV and net TV will the savings be passed on to consumers?