| reply to Guspaz
Re: Why does TV get special treatment? This discussion has come up before elsewhere. To "broadcast" full HDTV on the internet would require one helluva pipe to each individual user. A full 1080i OTA HD signal is currently sent at 19.4 Mbit/s. That's a lot of bandwidth for only ONE HD channel. The majority of "broadband" users are lucky to have 5-10 Mbit/s connection.
And don't wave around the argument that they can compress it down further so it takes up less space. It'll look like ass to the end user no matter what you do. Cable and satellite BDU's compress their HD channels and it's very easy to tell the difference compared to the OTA equivalent.
At this point in time, transmitting such a signal through the air so that hundreds of thousands can receive it simultaneously simply works so much better than sending it through the internet.
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