 JRW2R.I.P. Mom, Brian, Ziggy, Max and Zen.Premium
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 ·Optimum Online
| It's NOT going to work... While I don't doubt their testing worked, if this is rolled out to the general subscribers, it is going to fail miserably...
While they can treat each recording for storage purposes quite well, considering they only need one copy of the program to serve their entire client base.
How are they going to handle fifty or sixty people trying to pause, rewind, or fast forward the same program without blowing out their available bandwidth?
If they issue some type of set top box to "buffer" the program, how can this be cost effective then?
As I see it, for each unique program that is stored, they are essentially going to need to dedicate a "channel" to each program to effectively handle the numerous possible requests they get. Not everyone is going to be watching last nights episode of "24" at the same time, nor on the same day.
While many people only watch about fifteen channels, not everyone watches the same fifteen, so in essence they have to plan to record all of the channels, all day, even if one one person is ultimately going to be watching it.
This can turn into quite a storage issue for them.
I don't see how this will be better, ultimately, than having your own set top DVR...
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 ·AT&T U-Verse
| said by JRW2:How are they going to handle fifty or sixty people trying to pause, rewind, or fast forward the same program without blowing out their available bandwidth? If they issue some type of set top box to "buffer" the program, how can this be cost effective then? Storage is cheap... flash cards sell for 4GB@$10... Just buffer a good chunk of the show...
Hell this whole network DVR could enable viewers to watch a show they missed and didn't even record... |
