| Proper Home video distrobution IPTV and Digital cable have the same problem and the same damn solution if someone would just open their damn eyes and start doing it.
Place the decoder/encoder(for interactive upstream services) at the Entry bridge to the house, decode everything the customer is suppoed to have decoded.
Have a Channel changing/Interactive settop box at the TV. Use good old COAX cable to (which many houses are already or easily can be wired with) send the signal to the settop box. Its function is to provide the high number channels most TVs can't tune to, and to control the interactive stuff by communicating with the decoder/encoder at the entry bridge. |
Mr Dip
join:2005-02-28
Lisle, IL | Good idea in theory, but expensive. Now, to hook 1 TV to digital cable (or IPTV), you need not 1 box, but 2 boxes - a set top and then a box at the entry point.
IPTV is great on paper and in theory, but when I can go to my local Best Buy and get a digital cable ready TV and free CABLECARD from my cableco, I just don't care about it that much. IPTV via fiber sounds great - IPTV over ADSL2 sounds suspect. I trust my ADSL for gaming and surfing, but for TV, nothing beats my good old fashioned analog cable (or satellite for some). I don't want to set up 3 TVs for IPTV ADSL and on TV 3 get a "Sorry, TV1 and TV2 are both on and you are out of bandwidth - please try watching again later". |
 DaveDudeNo Fear
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| reply to haplo2112
Haplo, I totally agree. In this digital age, they cant just deliver the content to your house, and that it. Granted analog sets would make it difficult. However if the cables realize that "Cable Ready" sets are desired more then boxes. It would make alot of sense. There should be a box outside your house which trims content, and then the digital tvs( process it correctly ) |
