Rick
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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| IMHO..
this is where EVERYTHING will be going to in a few years time.
NBC..Direct.
CBS...Direct...
ABC...D I R E C T!
Want to watch the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite? (he's coming back..I swear  )
You go to their site..at your leisure..click on the link..and he's yours for a 1/2 hour.
Someone..tell me WHY..these content providers ..or any provider for that matter from movies to tv shows..needs prepackaged overpriced cable co..or fios TV ..or uverse packages?
Welcome.to the ultimate in CHOICE. Something we've all been craving for who have been subjected to all these shows as part of a TV package we barely watch to begin with.
This is why I see the cable co's and telco's move into providing the biggest PIPES they can as being what will be important for them in the future.
After all..DIRECT..won't happen without those pipes.
Don't think this will happen overnight though. The cables co's and telcos stand to lose a LOT here..and because they control the PIPES to the home..can make life pretty difficult for the providers who don't play nice with them as well.
But..lets face it. The FASTER the net becomes..the quicker our connections..running to the video store for movies will become a thing of the past.
This is why AT&T must abandon uverse. NOW.
Cable co.'s have docsis 3..
verizon..fios...
and AT&T will be dead with uverse.
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| It's interesting to watch the networks experiment with technology.
NBC released the premieres of a couple of thier shows (Bionic Woman and Chuck) on Time Warner On Demand two weeks early. In High Definition, no less!
I'm no fan of U-verse either (we have 4 HD tuners going and it's barely enough for two of us), but U-verse's pipes are big enough for net-based on-demand video that you are describing. They are just going to need to look at providing a much bigger data pipe. Dividing 25mbps between data and video doesn't quite cut it. 25mbps for data alone, however, will last them a while. Pair bonding is on their roadmap, it won't last them forever, but 50mbps will give the service a lot more headroom. |
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dadkins
Land of Confusion
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| reply to Rick
ABC News NOW - Comcast |
Comcast, right?
We get ABC News Live Feed now!
It plays on RealPlayer... but it's there.
Averages out to about 385kbps.
Online video is going to need far better content & higher bitrates(computer screens suck for SD TV) before it takes off.
I have several different video/TVoIP programs, we can all go to the channel's respective sites and watch episoded of various programs... it(bandwidth) doesn't add up all that fast.
Now, if someone starts making HDTV programming available via the web... bandwidth will start getting eaten a wee bit faster
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yabos
join:2003-02-16
Ingersoll, ON
| reply to Rick
The reason they need cable and FIOS is because not many people want to watch TV on their computer. I do and I find it's pretty good but it'd be a lot better if it was easily watch-able on the TV without having to manually go through the act of downloading it and hooking up cables and such.
Probably within a few years this will all be solved, either Apple TV or similar which you can subscribe to shows for CHEAPER than cable/satellite(not the $2/episode rip off it is now) and it will download it for you in the background automatically. Apple is almost there but we need on demand and having the device connected to the TV be the thing that actually gets the shows for you. |
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