Marc's Voice -> Real Baseball.
 Baseball Test May Show if Web Video's Time Has Come [New York Times: Technology] Real and Major League Baseball are gonna do it! They're going to offer webcasting of almost ALL BASEBALL GAMES this season.  They're going to charge between $6 and $10 a month.
With 16 or 18 million homes on broadband, and nearly everyone at work, that is a big enough sandbox for us to play in," said Bob Bowman, the chief executive of Major League Baseball Advanced Media.
When RealNetworks, which is based in Seattle, announces its fourth-quarter results tomorrow, it is expected to report that it has nearly one million paying customers for its various Webcasting services.
And why is this so signficiant? Because if Real and Baseball can prove to AOL, Yahoo and MSN that there IS some market out there for broadband content, then.........
As usual all the usual suspects are sitting still and doing nothing. This has been the problem with broadband all along. It takes the small innovators to get the status quo to get off their asses and act.
It looks like Real is aout to do that. Their content success, combined with their attitude towards open source is a killer combination. [Marc's Voice]
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