| On Demand Programming If I had my way, every house would have at least 100 mbit
connections, channels would be on-demand only.
Feed only the channel the person is watching at the moment.
If the cable box is off, then why send any data to it?
I look at comcast and there are a whole bunch of sports
channels that always say "off air" in the 400's.
What about the music channels in the 900's that are also taking up
bandwidth? There are times I seriously wonder what happened to
customer service? I was looking at new service where I bought a
house, and it's ridiculous. I'm seriously thinking of going back to
OTA TV. Only thing I'd miss is the weather channel. |
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| said by DeeplyShroud :
If I had my way, every house would have at least 100 mbit
connections, channels would be on-demand only.
Feed only the channel the person is watching at the moment.
If the cable box is off, then why send any data to it?
I look at comcast and there are a whole bunch of sports
channels that always say "off air" in the 400's.
What about the music channels in the 900's that are also taking up
bandwidth? There are times I seriously wonder what happened to
customer service? I was looking at new service where I bought a
house, and it's ridiculous. I'm seriously thinking of going back to
OTA TV. Only thing I'd miss is the weather channel.
you don't need 100mbit connections to enjoy on-demand programming:
»eztv.it
Torrent broadcast tv and beyond (cable shows on there too), no commercials or b/s! There are torrent sites for sports programming too! Once subscribers get wise... they'll both have to get to the table and hammer out a reasonable deal, otherwise consumers will steal it for free and once they do en-masse... all broadcasters and cable companies are screwed, because once a full-on napsterization happens you ain't going back to paying $30, 50, 80, 200+ a month just to watch tv! hell, no! |
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| reply to DeeplyShroud
Yes and you would be broke |
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| reply to DeeplyShroud
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If the cable box is off, then why send any data to it?
For guide data updates and software updates.
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I look at comcast and there are a whole bunch of sports
channels that always say "off air" in the 400's.
What you would like them to say?
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What about the music channels in the 900's that are also taking up
bandwidth?
45 audio only channels take up a lot less bandwidth then 45 video channels. IIRC, Music Choice streams at 192K, thats about 8Mb which aint jack.
As someone who likes to channel surf No way in hell would I go for your dream solution. The way of doing things now works. No 100% On Demand, no a la care, I will never support either of these notions. I don't typically watch trash like Discovery but ocasionally they have something good on there that I'd miss if I didn't have access to the channel
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| reply to DeeplyShroud
We don't currently have the bandwidth for everyone to pull down their own stream at the same time. Broadcasting is much better than Unicasting for the ISP. That's probably the biggest fear that they have right now. |
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