said by espaeth:By stating this I'm
not suggesting that content providers should be paying access providers to offset these costs. I do, however, believe that the consumer will (and probably should) be billed a higher level because the delivery method is so ungodly inefficient.
There's no way you can take a broadcast medium like cable or satellite TV, convert it to unicast streams where the infrastructure has to scale linearly with every single new viewer, and expect that somehow at full scale this is going to be cheaper.The consumer costs are going to be higher because of the vast inefficiency of delivery in combination with sharply higher network buildout expenses at the edge. This says nothing of the fact that if people are going to be doing wholesale conversion from broadcast to IPTV, we're only going to get a few percent of the existing viewership converted before we'll run out of edge capacity due to the limits of current broadband access technology.
Very well put. And it is this unfortunate FACT that many here REFUSE to accept. And the loss of TV viewers will reduce revenues while costs will not drop commensurately. Then, prices will increase drastically for HSI unless caps and overage charges are in place.
