 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
1 edit | One at a time? Simply not enough.... Watch and record one program at a time.
Well, at the bare minimum you need to be able to record and watch SOMETHING ELSE at the same time.... Ideally you could watch and record at least two things at once.
Let's not forget most households have more then one TV. I suspect at&t is going to hit this bandwidth brickwall hard.
Let's not even consider what happens if someone in the house is trying to use the internet connection for downloading or uploading while others are trying to watch TV. I think it'll be tapped out... |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
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Valencia, CA | You can watch and record at the same time... just use a VCR  |
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Not everyone in the world is as addicted to TV as Americans (and especially some who post here). Some households have only (gasp!) ONE television! Hi-def isn't even on most people's radar here or abroad, despite the marketing hype.
AT&T's dumbass planning aside, Swisscom's VDSL offering does not suffer from the one-at-a-time malady you decry. Neither does AT&T's. Only 300,000 (13%) of the 2.3 million Swisscom homes passed are stuck on a limited ADSL circuit. The article for whatever reason doesn't bother to emphasize the 87% which have access to VDSL and are not so limited. |
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Switzerland's telecom infrastructure is sophisticated, but is there really a big point to IPTV over ADSL if there's only one channel available? I suspect that most subscribers would prefer to boost their data speeds with that bandwidth, rather than get a single channel.
If people have a TV + computer the prospect of saying "Would you mind turning off the TV, we're trying to download something!" would seem to discourage large-scale long-term adoption. This kind of service will only be able to hold the line until new copper tech is invented, or a competitor just deploys something better. Gov't regulation will probably be needed to stop that. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK Reviews:
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said by Langley :
Not everyone in the world is as addicted to TV as Americans (and especially some who post here). Some households have only (gasp!) ONE television! Hi-def isn't even on most people's radar here or abroad, despite the marketing hype. And at&t isn't trying to sell their IPTV service in these countries, or to these one tv households, so I fail to see how this really is relevant. I guess the point you're making is maybe the Swiss don't watch much TV, and only have one TV, so the Swisscom system works for them.
Well I suspect that even in Switzerland the system will be bandwidth strangled, and for at&t here, their blueprint is even more flawed. I'm currently an at&t DSL subscriber, and have one of their fastest packages, yet there's no way the could stream me HD without say building out FFTH.
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