![]() Īpple's iTunes service also began offering select television programs and series in 2005, available for download after direct payment. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, which led to the idea of a video sharing site. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim said the inspiration for YouTube first came from Janet Jackson's role in the 2004 Super Bowl incident, when her breast was exposed during her performance, and later from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The video-sharing site YouTube was launched in early 2005, allowing users to share illegally posted television programs. The mid-2000s were the beginning of television programs becoming available via the Internet. ![]() ![]() Streaming services were only made possible as a result of two major technological developments: MPEG ( motion-compensated DCT) video compression and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) data transmission. Up until the 1990s, it was not thought possible that a television programme could be squeezed into the limited telecommunication bandwidth of a copper telephone cable to provide a streaming service of acceptable quality, as the required bandwidth of a digital television signal was around 200 Mbit/s, which was 2,000 times greater than the bandwidth of a speech signal over a copper telephone wire.
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