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Berwyn, PA Reviews:
 ·Verizon FiOS
| Packet Based TV We need to get rid of the idea of dedicated bandwidth.
Now that we have made the switch to Digital TV, the next switch should be to packet based TV. This should be done in conjunction with all the other users of spectrum. A packet based approach would allow multiple suppliers to share the same bandwidth for multiple purposes.
It could work just as the Internet works today. Broadcasters would send out packets on the first free spectrum that they find. There would have to be a QoS system and control channels to ensure it all works as planned. But, the days of dedicated spectrum should come to an end.
Given the commodity price of packet based hardware, this should not be expensive to implement. At worst, it would require some buffer memory on the receiving end.
This will take at lease ten years, but planning must start now. |
