amungus
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join:2004-11-26
America
clubs:
| first poster said it best...................................
"TCP/IP is not broadcast
It seems silly to me that these folks are trying to replicate a broadcast paradigm using point to point.
Hasn't the wheel already been invented here?"
...yeah, it has, and it's called ANALOG. TV was meant to be broadcasted...
Even digital broadcasting is more well established (than IPTV), not to mention sat. systems......
The only real way to deliver HD is either through existing cable, sat. or ..hmm.. what's that other stuff called? oh yeah.. FIBER.
I've posted it before, I'll post it again, STOP TRYING TO PIPE TELEVISION THROUGH TELEPHONE LINES!!! It's about the dumbest thing I can think of. I mean come on, what's next, trying to pump gas through a hose the size of a straw??? You'd be sitting at the pump for hours.
Telephone lines were invented, and deployed for one reason, and one reason only, telephones. It's almost weird that modulation/demodulation works at all for dialup (and we all know how flaky that is) let alone DSL. Leave the poor ol' little itsy bitsy coper lines alone and leave real television to people who know what they're doing with it. |
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sgnese
join:2006-02-12
San Jose, CA | Is it safe to assume you work for cable co??? |
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amungus
Premium
join:2004-11-26
America
clubs: | no, I'm just a computer geek..
but I think cable/sat. co's already know what they're doing with video.
IPTV is a cool idea, don't get me wrong, but I think that to really do HD video across telephone wires is just silly. |
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