| Coax is Coax I believe it is false advertising since the fiber actually never comes to the house. There is no fiber actually installed. If it looks like coax, smells like coax and tastes like coax...it's coax. |
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 ctceoPremium
join:2001-04-26
South Bend, IN | Are you sure its not rocket fuel? |
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FiOS=Coax for Video.
Once it reaches the side of the house it converts to coax and coax is what goes to your set top box and tv. Every single multi-channel video provider in the US turns to coax before it gets to your TV. FiOS and cable both use QAM over a fiber-to-coax network to bring the video signal. That is a fact, not an opinion.
Verizon's "fast one" is how they position fiber as a reason why their video product is better. It isn't. Same television programs via the same basic protocols and physical plant. The only difference that has a distinction is with the internet service. Clearly a 32 home node riding on a shared GPON network has higher potential than a 150-500 home node riding on DOCSIS 2.x or even 3.0 network. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | There is a difference between the Verizon cable system and the Comcast/TWC/Cox/Charter systems, which is the interactive and internet components are entirely separate from the one-way television. Yes, FiOS TV emulates what is for all intents and purposes an 850 Mhz cable system, but their system has a grand total of zero channels dedicated to VOD and internet, which leaves more cable channels open for television.
Of course, the biggest advantage of FiOS TV is the fact that Verizon does not add addition compression to their data, which is really more corporate policy than anything else- they could just as easily overcompress as much as any cableco if they wanted to. |
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