Video Archives on Indian Media Web sites - A Waste of Space

I wanted to watch http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/the-buck-stops-here/the-secularism-debate-just-a-media-fixation/284320 episode of Barkha Dutt's 'The Buck Stops Here'. 

I had missed the LIVE show, so I went to NDTV website to get the episode.

To my utter surprise I found that I cannot download the video as the video is streamed via some RMTP method. Googling RMTP tells that this kind of streaming is available only for online viewing, in other words, making it impossible to download any video to watch later.

There is another flaw in this system - if I get disconnected for any of the various factors - power interruptions, internet connection dropping out, etc which are routine - the video play starts from the very beginning!

After several failed attempts, I dropped the idea of watching the show. 
Earlier, I used to watch many shows offline from www.ndtv.com as they could be saved.

The fun is over.


Why do Media websites have video archives if visitors cannot save them to watch later?
How many watch their archives LIVE/online? 

News channels could save wearing out their servers by removing videos.

If the Organisations running these News Channels believe they can force viewers to watch their LIVE programs or make them watch them online, they are in for some surprises. 

None would visit their website and spend time on watching interrupted videos.
BECAUSE, the visitors are either critics or people who like the shows.

The taar (telegraph) has 'retired' permanently from our lives today. The news brought an incident to my mind from the past

As a boy in mid-teens, I stood for my turn to collect mail at a P&T Office (Daakghar) in a remote place. People had to collect their mail from Post Office as their was no Daakiya (postman) to deliver it.

A telegram from Bombay (in1966 it was) was delivered to a man in 50s who couldn't read and didn't understand English. The clerk at the window, who as a rule read out telegraphic messages to almost all the people, didn't help and told him "I'm too busy, please take help from someone else". 

He showed it to 3 other people. They glanced at it then politely declined to translate for him saying "sorry, I don't know English."

Then he approached me for help.

I read & asked him 'Who is so-and-so in Bombay?" 

He replied, "My son".

I told him the message which was from the Police and which went like this - 

[name] EXPIRED AFTER ROOF FELL ON HIM STOP START IMMEDIATELY

(In telegrams, STOP means end of sentence)

The man went down on his knees and collapsed on the ground crying bitterly.

All the people who didn't help him with the translation rushed towards him - supporting him in their firm grip, holding him close to their chest and consoling him, speaking soothing words softly in his ears.

I felt kinda guilty! 

I still don't know how to announce death to someone without causing the ensuing hurt.