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I'll have to take a shot in the dark here and think that with the newer larger pipe that will come down the line for everyone over the next 5 years, technology will either catch up more be well ahead of the curve by the time everyone can see the goods and bads. I have to think this is all based around ip6 and making households fully ip controlled. Right now as far as video and live streams are concerned you get very good quality. I can double size any downloaded clip and the quality is fine (at least in my eyes it is) so I think the leap to doubling the size won't be that bad of a pipe hog. As far as the live stream is concerned MS media server is the way to go. I'm not jumping any cam site here as I own one and had another. Anything with java is just outdated and nothing but a rip off to the customer in quality. Flash is nice but in my eyes still can't come close to a live MS stream. The first time I saw one (and now they are out in HD) I was blown away. The girl was told to move her arm over voice (with no delay) and then moved it 1 second later (with no delay). The host was from the east europe which lead me think at the time she could not have more then 256k as the cost would be crazy. That was about 6 month ago. As far as cam site's go, you will either have a MS server product or you will be left behind paying for someone elses garbage. Besides the price of cam software is still costly for anything good. It's easier to pay someone that money to develop your own product with your own backend and still save a ton of cash.. I can't wait.
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