All the TV you would ever want – on the internet
bittorrent, multicast, p2p, streaming | (4)
Traditional broadcasting has a huge advantage compared to internet streaming. The fact that you don't have to care about how many people turn on their TV sets. When they start broadcasting the superbowl or popular content like the eurovision song contest in Europe more than 100 million people turn on and look at it. And still it's no problem. That doesn't overload the broadcasting systems.
With regular internet streaming that's a problem. The load on your servers will increase with the amount of people tuning in to watch the stream. That system is completely useless if you want to serve 100 ...