The Brits 2006 awards...

or should that be the Darwin awards.

Following up on my recent post on the BBC live, streamed, broadband delivery of World Cup games, I found this on the BBC sports editors blog. It seems like he works at the BBC?

01 Jun 2006, Aashish Chandarana, Innoavtions & Broadband wrote:

Hi - in respnse to the questions on quality.

We are still trying to see what works best. While we appreciate some people have really fast connections, not everyone has yet and it is a question of making sure we get the balance right.

Naturally, we are also trying to make sure as many people as possible can watch it.

The difficult thing with streaming online is being able to handle a large number of concurrent users. This also affects our decisions on quality.

We'll keep you posted on what we come up with!

With less than 2 weeks to go before the first games (when it was posted), the BBC's attempt to provide the largest ever simultaneous broadband viewing event in the history of the internet, still wasn't sure of it's delivery mechanism.

I think this kind of confirms my earlier suspicions.

Please, BBC, abandon this before it gets embarrassing!