The Operation MySpace concert for U.S. soldiers in Kuwait next week (see ridiculous video below) is getting lots of press, but it’s all around who’s performing: Pussycat Dolls, Jessica Simpson, Disturbed, Filter, DJ Z-Trip and Carlos Mencia. What’s far more interesting, in my opinion, is what they are pulling off technically - high definition live […]

The Operation MySpace concert for U.S. soldiers in Kuwait next week (see ridiculous video below) is getting lots of press, but it’s all around who’s performing: Pussycat Dolls, Jessica Simpson, Disturbed, Filter, DJ Z-Trip and Carlos Mencia.

What’s far more interesting, in my opinion, is what they are pulling off technically - high definition live video streaming of the event to as many people who want to watch it, on a Flash player. That isn’t trivial. The big networks can do it, of course, but they’re piping it into your television, and the cable companies own both ends of the network (including a box in your living room) as well as the pipes in between. Encoding the high def stream in real time for packaging over the Internet is a problem that companies are just starting to solve. And some of those solutions require special hardware at the consumer end.

MySpace says the stream will be 480p (848

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