Vuze is the most popular media player for high-res digital videos. Millions around the world use Vuze daily to Find, Download, and Play HD videos on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod, Xbox 360, and PS3.
he secret sauce behind Vuze is peer-to-peer technology (often called P2P), and specifically, a protocol called bittorrent. So, what is P2P? What is bittorrent? How does it work and why should it matter to you?
The Old Way We Got Content: Until recently, it was virtually impossible to send large files, like video, over the Internet with any kind of efficiency. Nowadays, most video companies use a "one-to-many" model in which they deliver content to users from central computer servers. This approach is expensive and generally slow. That's why many video sites limit the length or size of the files. The result is often a grainy, low quality playback experience. Here is what a "one-to-many" system looks like.
Old Way: Client-Server
A Newer Way to Get Content - "Peer-to-peer": In the late 1990s, all this began to change. The world witnessed the development of the first peer-to-peer file sharing models, in which the central server became essentially obsolete. This approach enabled individual computer users to send and receive files without the need for a centralized server. One "peer" literally delivered an entire content file to another "peer" - hence the name peer-to-peer. In the early years, peer-to-peer technologies were primarily used for transferring smaller text and music files due to the fact that the file transfer was constrained to the upload bandwidth constraint of an individual user transferring the file.
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