An RGB box does all the video processing and compressing needed to squeeze 40% more space out of the existing bandwidth, allowing cablers to get 16 more Sopranos streams to those 500 households.
Still, the plan, Sandvik says, is to go beyond Spotify to add more music streams to the service as well.
"We can create more revenue streams to address the affordable housing need, but we shouldn't discourage this much-needed infusion of market-rate housing".
And there are tons more streaming services to choose from; besides all the internet radio stations (including all the BBC's), there's Deezer, Rdio, Napster, 7Digital, 8tracks, Slacker, Wolfgang's Vault… it's a veritable cornucopia of music and information.
It will be used to continue expanding Kobalt's platform to cover more streaming sources, and to add more artists and labels to the list it represents, he said in an interview.
The service supports up to two simultaneous streams, and unlike Hulu, there's no way to pay to add more streams for an additional fee.
In a Storm topology, sometimes two or more streams from different bolts need to flow into one bolt.
With more than 3bn streams to date, he overtook the previous most-streamed artist, Eminem.
In the meantime, farmers could help by spraying fewer pesticides and herbicides, or by planting more vegetation around streams to reduce the polluted runoff from fields.
