 smokarz
join:2006-07-24
West Hartford, CT | power to him now there's an executive who know his customers. kids these days want to host game servers, download porn dvds in 30min, and watch hd contents online. you want tv, call directv. | |
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| | Exactly I agree 100% Make partners for the content and focus on being a big fat pipe for distribution.
I love my DirecTV and I love pulling DirecTV Video On Demand over my AT&T Fiber. It's a good marriage and I'll pay more for more bandwidth. | |
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 danawhitakerSpace...The Final FrontierPremium
join:2002-03-02
Urbandale, IA | Russian Roulette... "DirecTV (whose service Qwest resells) will soon be offering customers VOD using home broadband connections, which is probably playing a big part in Mueller's thinking."
Oh good. More things to push users over Qwest's mystery bandwidth caps. Thanks so much. I wonder how much bandwidth one hour of VOD programming would consume. I love the idea of playing russian roulette with my DSL connection and hoping I don't get a warning letter just for wanting to watch VOD content. And if I did have access to this service, I would probably take advantage of it often because I have a small child and it's much easier to watch programming later on-demand than it is to watch while it's airing.
Or am I misreading exactly how this service would work? That's entirely possible.
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 | Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Re: Russian Roulette... A typical tv show is 400mb(43 minutes now?) and a movie is 700mb. With the 264 compression and random hexagons the quality gets even better and the size smaller (takes longer to compress). The majority of TV show are currently available through various venues. | |
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|  a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY
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1 edit | what caps? as far as I know, DSL is the only internet service in the US that doesnt have any caps (generally speaking)
EDIT: Ok, I guess I didn't read the article carefully. Damn, that sux! Why the HELL does Qworst have caps? That basically makes them the only DSL ISP in the US that actually enforces caps! | |
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| | danawhitakerSpace...The Final FrontierPremium
join:2002-03-02
Urbandale, IA | In response to a333, check out this thread: »Heads up on EUP
In response to the size. Hmm. Based on the number of shows I watch and approximately how many episodes per week per month, that would end up being about 20 gigs extra per month - only if I stuck to just the shows I like. That's not a huge amount, but everything adds up. And that's just for me, I imagine households with multiple people using such services could quickly add up. Thanks for the info.
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kcblackPremium
join:2000-09-11
Chicago, IL Reviews:
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| Beginning of the end and a new beginning.... finally an exec who may actually be earning his salary...
He's 200% right about the traditional broadcast model being obsolete. It will be at some point(hopefully soon) all about the pipes...
I also see that the data caps are going to be an issue too. Luckily I'm on 20/2 RCN right now and for all their other issues (P2P Bandwidth throttling and poor customer service/tech support) they haven't done bandwidth caps yet.
It also makes all this writers guild/strike crap a moot point. We've already seen the beginning of the breaking of the studio/writer/network stranglehold that has been the basis of the broadcast model.
Kevin
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|  ThespisI'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.Premium
join:2004-08-03
Keller, TX | Re: Beginning of the end and a new beginning.... said by kcblack:It also makes all this writers guild/strike crap a moot point. We've already seen the beginning of the breaking of the studio/writer/network stranglehold that has been the basis of the broadcast model. Kevin How so? This is simply about how content is distributed; not how it's produced. To produce a drama or comedy, you still need writers, directors, producers, actors, technicians and studios... | |
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 decadentPremium
join:2002-04-02
Piscataway, NJ | 4G He should not worry about young generation. They will use wireless 4G and Qwest will be no so relevant. But people who pay bills now, watch TV one way or another. | |
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| | WTF?! Am I reading this right? Baby Bell company executives in touch with their consumers needs? Whoa! Next thing you know pigs will fly and hell will freeze over. LOL!
Hope this pans out and that other companies (ie. telcos, cable cos, ISP, etc.) will follow Qwest's lead about just being a big fat pipe and let others deal with content. | |
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| | | Re: WTF?! Could not have said it better myself.  | |
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| | no... don't tell us what we don't want... let us decide for ourselves.. and if you dont make it how can we ever tell | |
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| | Money where it's needed... Fine, but it's well over due to get with fiber to the node and/or home where appropriate, pronto. Get some vendors lined up and employees hired to get the QWEST network modernized. It's not going to download itself.. | |
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| | Qwest guy is a smart one His older fellow board members may think WTF, there still clicking the remote control on the TV, as opposed to getting it from net with PC hooked up to LCD TV.
But dude is spot on! Give me a blazing fast battery back up powered Internet service that is content neutral and you win the world!
Of course the cost of broadband will increase, but I use it so much that I'd pay 100 for it a month! | |
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 DaneJasperSonic.NetPremium,VIP
join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
kudos:7 | Good for Qwest This dovetails well into an article I wrote on this topic a few days ago:
»corp.sonic.net/blog/2008/01/08/s···-anyway/
It's good to see my theory validated by a major carrier's comments on the same topic!
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mdrift
join:2003-08-15
Spokane, WA | Talk is cheap Instead of quarterly reiterations, just upgrade to ADSL2+ and let the results show in new accounts and upgraded accounts. | |
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