jjoshua
Premium
join:2001-06-01
Scotch Plains, NJ | TCP/IP is not broadcast
It seems silly to me that these folks are trying to replicate a broadcast paradigm using point to point.
Hasn't the wheel already been invented here? |
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Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
clubs: 
| Ok..here's the package I'll be ordering....
"two live HD and 2 SD streams + DSL + overhead in 20-25 megabits"
Hopefully you'll excuse me for a minute here folks.
BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!
ROTFLOL!!!!
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!
OH>>!!!! MY RIBS!! THEY'RE CRACKING!!!!
AT&T's new webpage for UVerse...
»www.cartoonstock.com/directory/p···chio.asp
I wonder if the dsl speeds will break 42k while the hd is streaming?
I haven't seen anything this crowded all on 20 to 25MB since the bus trip I just took to for the natl. association of retirees to mohegan sun casino here in ct.
(no, no NO..i'm not that old yet. My g.Aunt asked me to join her.  )
This is starting to remind me of growing up as a child, all 6 of us fighting over one bathroom in the morning.
I don't know what two channels you'll be watching on HD, but I have a feeling that one of them will be "Dark Shadows".
Anyways..just a little humour. 
Hopefully it does work out for them.
Personally, I think that one interesting thing about uverse would be if they decided to offer ala carte internet packages, up to the 20 to 25MB speeds.
That could certainly be interesting, and a real competitor with FIOS.
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drmorley
Premium,MVM
join:2000-12-20
Park Ridge, IL
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| For all the Press...
For all the press around Project Lightspeed I've yet to see any real deployment. It's been two years of talk and for what? A couple of towns in Texas now have limited access to the service?
I couldn't be less impressed or excited about Project Lightspeed. Keep your press releases and just let me know when you're dropping fiber. I've got 27 years left on my mortgage so I'll be here...waiting patiently.
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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 ·Charter Pipeline
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1 edit | AT&T loves corporate welfare!
As for the rumors we've seen about AT&T deciding to go all fiber, Burstein doesn't think AT&T will spend the money.
this is correct. also, they will beg for corporate hand-outs in a few years to help them with the fiber build out once it is clear that they have f@cked themselves by doing this half-assed job. it's up to the people to revolt if any politician ever considers this. |
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china crisis
join:2003-05-28
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"johny, you get off the internet right now!" |
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jinjimbob
Troy Mcclure
join:2001-11-13 | Dish and Directv do it, . . .
Dish and DirecTv do it, why can't AT&T change HD into HD-Light?
They wouldn't need HD if they didn't over compress all the SD channels. |
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phattieg
join:2001-04-29
Winter Park, FL
 ·Verizon Wireless B..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Hate to say I told ya so, but....
I knew it. This is going to be such a waste of money to begin with. The company might as well deploy fiber, as they are already paying out the wazoo for the RT's. The cost of just going all the way and doing fiber is equal to, if not cheaper, than doing it this way. Totally impractical. The end result will not be worth the customers money. They would be better off servicing the "ineligible" with hybrid satellite/DSL with VoD capabilities. Not only could they benefit by designing the equipment/settop boxes, but they could also benefit by simply doing a contract with a dish vendor, saving them the cost of deploying more equipment other than their settop boxes. Oh well, they make a perfect example of the Vonage logo, "people do stupid things".
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wah-hoo-wah-hoohoo
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
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Re: Dish and Directv do it, . . .
Why don't they SEE THE LIGHT-- as in FIBER TO THE HOME??
it MUST be getting marginally cheaper than 2003/2004 days of 3-5k per home passed!
Besides, if I were at&t I'd only deploy in places where franchise rights have been locked up already, and use that as the carrot for other areas.. much like Verizon does. If they want to start small, PICK A FRIGGEN STATE and wire 100% of its territory with fiber, etc.. its not that big a deal, considering the revenue (aka profit) the company rakes in now.. |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX
| I predict
If AT&T sticks to this eventually Verizon will have expanded it's fios network as far as it can go. It's quite possible they will begin to overbuild areas they know they can snipe from AT&T.
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imrf
Premium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
| said by NOCMan  :If AT&T sticks to this eventually Verizon will have expanded it's fios network as far as it can go. It's quite possible they will begin to overbuild areas they know they can snipe from AT&T. We can only wish that would happen. I'd love to see this happen. I would then have two cable companies and two phone companies to decide over, instead of one phone company and two cable companies. |
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amungus
Premium
join:2004-11-26
America
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| first poster said it best...................................
"TCP/IP is not broadcast
It seems silly to me that these folks are trying to replicate a broadcast paradigm using point to point.
Hasn't the wheel already been invented here?"
...yeah, it has, and it's called ANALOG. TV was meant to be broadcasted...
Even digital broadcasting is more well established (than IPTV), not to mention sat. systems......
The only real way to deliver HD is either through existing cable, sat. or ..hmm.. what's that other stuff called? oh yeah.. FIBER.
I've posted it before, I'll post it again, STOP TRYING TO PIPE TELEVISION THROUGH TELEPHONE LINES!!! It's about the dumbest thing I can think of. I mean come on, what's next, trying to pump gas through a hose the size of a straw??? You'd be sitting at the pump for hours.
Telephone lines were invented, and deployed for one reason, and one reason only, telephones. It's almost weird that modulation/demodulation works at all for dialup (and we all know how flaky that is) let alone DSL. Leave the poor ol' little itsy bitsy coper lines alone and leave real television to people who know what they're doing with it. |
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dcs2281
join:2004-09-14
Santa Clarita, CA
| reply to NOCMan
Re: I predict
Well, I will have to wait and see on that one. How time passes many forget, Verizon deployed FTTH before in 1998 in a few areas. They ended up selling it off to the CableCo's. They were unable to maintain it and upgrade it due to cost. I realize costs have dropped, but from looking at what they are spending and their return so far, looks like a rehash of what they did before. Lay fiber, wait 2 years, then sell it off. Maybe they learned something from it, maybe they didn't. |
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sgnese
join:2006-02-12
San Jose, CA | reply to amungus
Re: first poster said it best...................................
Is it safe to assume you work for cable co??? |
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Eek2121
Lovin Verizon FIOS
join:2002-10-12
Flanders, NJ
| I'm no genious but...
take a standard quicktime HD 720p trailer. The one used in my example is 110 MB for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. At 700k/sec you can stream that trailer in real time. Keep in mind 700k/sec is only a little under 6 mbit, including overhead, and these trailers are of excellent quality. Quality reduction decreases file size. Cable compromises on quality, so do you really think AT&T won't? They could probably get it to about 5mbit or so quality wise. Either way, completely doable by regular DSL. I remember having a 7/1 DSL connection through a local, independent provider once. I was 9,000 feet from the C/O as well. |
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djeremy
join:2004-07-12
San Francisco, CA | reply to drmorley
Re: For all the Press...
I absolutely agree with you. All this talk and basically no action outside of what, 500 homes in Texas? |
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amungus
Premium
join:2004-11-26
America
clubs: | reply to sgnese
Re: first poster said it best...................................
no, I'm just a computer geek..
but I think cable/sat. co's already know what they're doing with video.
IPTV is a cool idea, don't get me wrong, but I think that to really do HD video across telephone wires is just silly. |
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cyberbeing
join:2005-02-18
Sacramento, CA | MPEG4-AVC would make this possible
If they are using MPEG4-AVC(h.264) and not MPEG2 I don't see why this would be so impossible. Combine that with only transmitting the stations you tune to and it would probably work just fine at broadcast quality. |
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Biskit
join:2003-02-07
Fenton, MO
| reply to djeremy
Re: For all the Press...
Right, they can just have Jeannie wiggle her nose and poof, all of the equipment and cables are in place. Give it a rest, it takes time and manpower to deploy. In some cases new fiber, new interfaces, conditioning existing pairs. I am not defending them by no means, but the stuff isnt going to magically pop up. |
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rachelsfx
join:2004-09-27
Pensacola, FL
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Re: TCP/IP is not broadcast
If at&t says it'll work, dammit it'll work.
at&t has a strategy, err, ideas, err, stupid ideas. They have the technology, err, possible techno-, err, YES! The NSA on their side.
at&t
Yo r Wo ld. D li e d.
Bloody compression!
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