I suspect their '5 minutes' comment is marketing drone speak for 'I don't really understand how this technology works'.
One instance where that would make sense would be in the case of a higher-bitrate data carousel carrying say the top 5 movies chunked up to facilitate 'instant on'. The carousel iterations may require a minimum of 5 minutes at datarate x for the box to aquire enough data chunks to start playback without fear of hitting a buffer underrun. My experience in this has been that this concept is a pipedream.
The other possibility is that they continuously trickle content to the box and send metadata announcements in an ancillary channel that has a announce time of 5 minutes. The maximum lead time from receiving the entire file to the first decode of new metadata would then be 5 minutes.
Pre-selecting items from a carousel is novel yet not original. The advantage is that the user can manage content. The disadvantage is that the lead time to obtain item B when eliminating item A is not decreased. Best to give them the illusion of queue management by simply hiding what they see on the OSD, and not what is on the drive (so when they change their minds, that 'old' content is suddenly instantly available).
This box is just another Moviebeam push device. Too late to market and doomed to failure -- unless they plan to implement broadband on the box from the get-go to dynamically populate the box using sat for popular content and broadband for user-NVOD.
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I suspect their '5 minutes' comment is marketing drone speak for 'I don't really understand how this technology works'.
One instance where that would make sense would be in the case of a higher-bitrate data carousel carrying say the top 5 movies chunked up to facilitate 'instant on'. The carousel iterations may require a minimum of 5 minutes at datarate x for the box to aquire enough data chunks to start playback without fear of hitting a buffer underrun. My experience in this has been that this concept is a pipedream.
The other possibility is that they continuously trickle content to the box and send metadata announcements in an ancillary channel that has a announce time of 5 minutes. The maximum lead time from receiving the entire file to the first decode of new metadata would then be 5 minutes.
Pre-selecting items from a carousel is novel yet not original. The advantage is that the user can manage content. The disadvantage is that the lead time to obtain item B when eliminating item A is not decreased. Best to give them the illusion of queue management by simply hiding what they see on the OSD, and not what is on the drive (so when they change their minds, that 'old' content is suddenly instantly available).
This box is just another Moviebeam push device. Too late to market and doomed to failure -- unless they plan to implement broadband on the box from the get-go to dynamically populate the box using sat for popular content and broadband for user-NVOD.