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en102
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Valencia, CA | Re: One at a time? Simply not enough.... You can watch and record at the same time... just use a VCR  | |
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Langley
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| Not everyone in the world is as addicted to TV as Americans (and especially some who post here). Some households have only (gasp!) ONE television! Hi-def isn't even on most people's radar here or abroad, despite the marketing hype.
AT&T's dumbass planning aside, Swisscom's VDSL offering does not suffer from the one-at-a-time malady you decry. Neither does AT&T's. Only 300,000 (13%) of the 2.3 million Swisscom homes passed are stuck on a limited ADSL circuit. The article for whatever reason doesn't bother to emphasize the 87% which have access to VDSL and are not so limited. | |
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KrK
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| Re: One at a time? Simply not enough.... said by Langley :
Not everyone in the world is as addicted to TV as Americans (and especially some who post here). Some households have only (gasp!) ONE television! Hi-def isn't even on most people's radar here or abroad, despite the marketing hype. And at&t isn't trying to sell their IPTV service in these countries, or to these one tv households, so I fail to see how this really is relevant. I guess the point you're making is maybe the Swiss don't watch much TV, and only have one TV, so the Swisscom system works for them.
Well I suspect that even in Switzerland the system will be bandwidth strangled, and for at&t here, their blueprint is even more flawed. I'm currently an at&t DSL subscriber, and have one of their fastest packages, yet there's no way the could stream me HD without say building out FFTH.
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Gaithersburg, MD
| Switzerland's telecom infrastructure is sophisticated, but is there really a big point to IPTV over ADSL if there's only one channel available? I suspect that most subscribers would prefer to boost their data speeds with that bandwidth, rather than get a single channel.
If people have a TV + computer the prospect of saying "Would you mind turning off the TV, we're trying to download something!" would seem to discourage large-scale long-term adoption. This kind of service will only be able to hold the line until new copper tech is invented, or a competitor just deploys something better. Gov't regulation will probably be needed to stop that. | |
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