Digital Home Thoughts: Mark Cuban, Defender of High-Def and... Hard Drives?

"He's a billionaire business tycoon, a Hollywood producer and the maverick owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks. Most people know Mark Cuban as the guy the cameras always catch chewing out referees at basketball games. Of course, many can also identify him as the founder of Internet radio site Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999, and co-owner of HDNet. By promoting HDNet, which bills itself as the nation's first television network to broadcast exclusively in high definition, Cuban has become an unofficial spokesman for the HD format... In a recent e-mail interview with CNET News.com, the sometimes volatile and always outspoken Cuban takes a verbal swipe or two at CBS, Hollywood and anyone who wants to watch analog television."

This is a very interesting interview with Mark Cuban, co-owner of HDNet, a high-def channel here in the states. Mark's got some interesting views on high-def content and how it will be delivered in the future. Basically, he says sports and sports fans will fuel the HD revolution, but getting the HD content to people will be the greatest hurdle. Citing the fact that true HD content is too bandwidth-intensive for most internet and cable systems to handle, he predicts the future of HD content delivery will be hard drives via overnight delivery. 8O Says Mark: "The reality is that it's cheaper and faster to send (hard drives with terabytes of) content overnight via UPS than it is to download it over the Net. Brown is faster than the Net." Now that would be something to see. :) Give the article a read and let us know your thoughts on the subject.