Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
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Re: cost of doing nothing is higher said by RadioDoc:DOCSIS 3.0 is going to take some serious investment to implement. Now is not the time to be dissing those who provide the money. Why can't they use revenue instead of stocks to fund upgrades? If they switched to SDV (switched digital video) and MPEG4 (away from MPEG1/2), then their savings would be fundamentally greater, and they wouldn't need to upgrade as fast. Then they could use that bandwidth and money savings to invest in upgrades, rather than just trying to overstuff with too much money.
I've already wondered how much they could start cream-skimming channels to SDV and MPEG4 now, putting the HD and other most premium channels (and niche channels) into SDV & MPEG4 and leaving the rest in MPEG1/2, so that the hassle of getting the box can be borne by those who would appreciate the upgrade. At first, it would just be a cost, but then soon enough they'd be able to free some of the bandwidth. Put SDV and MPEG4 upgrades at the forefront, and then do upgrades with revenue rather than with stock capital, and then use the savings from those upgrades to pay for the rest of those upgrades, until they have profit from that, and then turn that into more upgrades. At some point they can start putting DOCSIS 3.0 in where there's hot spots, instead of rolling out a uniform plant like that.
They seem like they're trying to stack waves on top of each other right now, rather than do a more money-integrated upgrade path that is both ambitious, fast-paced, interlocking, and conservative (more level) in costing. The way to do that is to puzzle-piece things together in good fits rather than frothing and foaming it up. |
