wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD
| reply to G_Poobah
Re: Faster internet but same prices for cable TV
said by G_Poobah  :umm, not IPTV? I'd be very very interested to know how you can send an analog signal over fiber. The same way as you send any other signal. There's nothing intrinsically digital about fiber. It's just modulated light in place of modulated electricity.
Experience is misleading in this case, since everything light-based that the average person has encountered has been digital -- CDs, DVDs, optical digital audio, sometimes networking. But it doesn't have to be that way. Recall the analog video of the original 12" laser discs.
And even if it were digital, that wouldn't necessarily imply IPTV, either. Digital Cable and OTA ATSC are digital, but not IP-based. |
