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No prison can hold me
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join:2002-12-26
Aurora, IL | Has anyone seen or tried it? i dont see how we currently have the bandwidth to do this yet. Even those of us lucky enough to have 6 Mb pipes seem limited. Is this HDTV quality or like streaming video quality? | |
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join:2000-10-28
| Re: Has anyone seen or tried it? Was going to say something similar. We can barely get low-res streaming to perform reliably. Even for AUDIO.
The older linked thread indicates that Akimbo, at least, requires 700-1500k of steady bandwidth.
I just can't imagine how these things are going to fly.
If they're just going to perform time-shifted downloads, well, that's what BitTorrent is for, I guess. Not to mention PVR's.
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jap
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join:2003-08-10
038xx
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: Has anyone seen or tried it? May not be streamed. The BBC just started offering 3minute segments of their in-house, owned non-fiction (documentaries, nature shows, news, and the like) TV footage - some of it quite old. Their intent is to eventually offer all of their TV shows for download. I think the startups mentioned in this article are smart to get a jump on the content hosting prior to the demand spike because it's cheap for them to put it up, they get a jump on content conversion, practice at distributed bandwidth delivery, and the fiber base is going to grow fast, once it gets started. Market share, market share, market share.
The cool thing is such massive files in mass consumption will definitely drive us into intelligent peer-caching networks. Years of piracy has groomed the public to accept being part of the delivery system; I knew there was a silver lining to all this piracy! | |
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Brown2
@rr.com
| My guess is its not 1080i HDTV quality. But more likely something like 480p quality.
But I can't see how they are going to make a business off of non-realtime video. All of these services so far are based on downloading the content to a local device and playing it back after it downloads. Especially when I can pay for service with my cable company and get real-time 1080i HDTV video. Which is going to let far better than anything these services can offer.
Until they get fiber video into the homes, you won't be able to really see anything close to cable TV with IP TV. The bandwith is just not there right now for true real-time video. | |
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join:2000-10-28 | Re: Has anyone seen or tried it?
Dot Com Part II -- The Search For Bandwidth
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The Beer
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Premium
join:2001-07-24
Omaha, NE
clubs: | DaveTV? Does Daivd Lee Roth get any royalty's from this service? | |
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footballdude
join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO | Re: DaveTV? "Only right here, on Dave TV!" | |
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strohsbeer
@165.236.x.x | WTF? I still don't see the need to turn your $1000 PC into a $100 television. Talk about a waste of bandwidth. | |
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jap
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join:2003-08-10
038xx | Re: WTF? People want time shift. And most will choose to turn their TVs into connected storage, not PCs into TVs. | |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
The Lou
·Charter Pipeline
| When a service is provided, the move will be more geared to appliances that will use that service. IP television will eventually play on regular sets, not just PC.
Here's the competition in the future...Cable companies have the triple threat advantage right now (VoIP, streaming video on demand, HSI), but they are limited by the technology of the cable infrastructure.
Once Telcos begin offering fiber based services in a broad manner, people will have a true choice of which conduit to receive their service.
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strohsbeer
@165.236.x.x | Re: WTF? well, for those of us with limited incomes and lives/jobs to attend to, i still don't see the need here, but that's just MHO.
TIVO, anyone? | |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| Re: WTF? Some of us are disabled, how limited of an income are we talking here?
TIVO? Better than TIVO! I can watch recorded shows or type posts on messageboards or play DOOM 3 or... all on the same machine. Save your money like I did, you could buy one too!
TV over broadband is great! Check out Backspace, you might just like it. 
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Brown2
@rr.com
| Re: WTF? I have tried backspace, it suffers from the same problems all of these do. To do real-time streaming, you have to lose something in the quality and performance. The bandwith is just not there to make it work.
And don't even get me started on MCE. Hint to Microsoft, move on or make a good set-top box for MCE. We all know their failures with ultimateTV, didn't even make a year before it died.. | |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
The Lou
·Charter Pipeline
| If you have limited income, why would you even be concerned with something that is a "want" anyways? Products like these are for people willing to spend out of their excess to have them.
Just because you can't find a need for it within your bubble of a world doesn't mean the technology is junk. Goodness, some people!
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strohsbeer
@165.236.x.x | Re: WTF? who said that? i was trying to illustrate the irony of how technology here has come full circle-merging the computer and the tv again just like in the commodore 64 days. | |
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UnionJax
join:2002-09-25
Richmond, IN
| Competition Ive got a feeling that if this way to take off in a big way, the cable companies would just limit how much you could download. Which of course some of them are doing anyway, thats if Broadband TV was to compete in any way with their cable service in the future. | |
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Brown2
@rr.com
| Re: Competition Actually the opposite would happen. They would just branch off into their own IP TV services.
Just look at VOIP as an example. Now that VOIP is becoming more a in thing, the cable companies want in. So they are now hurrying to launch their own VOIP service.
But the problem still lies in the bandwith is just not there to do it in real-time like regular cable TV works.
The closest so far is the VOD stuff that cable companies have now. Where it still uses a separate TV channel to send you the content in real-time. | |
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jokerjury
join:2000-11-18
Salt Lake City, UT | Invisible Usage Caps Is it even possible without running over the invisible bandwidth usage caps? | |
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join:2004-07-31
Whiting, IN | Re: Invisible Usage Caps good question, I was just about to ask myself. I see this broadband tv being an excuse to go such a barrier, yeah. | |
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Anonuser
join:2003-01-03
Milwaukee, WI
| Akimbo What is nice about the Akimbo, is it is not streaming. It downloads the Whole file to the devices HD. I have talked with some Akimbo reps, and they said you could download all the content you wanted to it, and then pickup the unit, while it is disconnected from web, and take it someplace else to view content 
Thought that was fairly cool.
Depending on how well our unit performs, my family might be putting one of these in each of the cabins at their 2 resorts
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MustardMan
join:2003-05-22
Sealand
| Everything but the kitchen sink I just don't see it flying very high until we get more bandwidth happening. That's gonna take time.
Regarding the PC vs TV thing. I use my PC for EVERYTHING. I mean absolutely EVERYTHING. Runs my entire business and provides all my multimedia entertainment. I don't have a stereo, VCR, DVD-player, Satellite Receiver or TV. My PC currently does ALL that (yes, even the satellite receiver thing using a PCI tuner card). It's not a $1000 PC being used as a $100 TV. It's a $1000PC (actually more like $1500) being used as a $1500PC+$800(LCD)TV+$500stereo with 5.1 surround sound +$200DVD player+$200 satellite rcvr. Did I miss anything? | |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | Re: Everything but the kitchen sink Well said! :D | |
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commando
join:2000-06-07
Chicago, IL
| MLB.tv MLB.tv is a 9.95/month broadband streaming service of all the baseballs games including all the special content on their page. The one downside is you cannot watch local games on the service, but there is ways around it. I believe it is cheaper for me to buy the service then order cable just so I can watch the local baseball games. There is a couple sec delay, but I assume that is the fact of encoding the content is cpu-intensive. If there is a service out there to just get a few select cable channels, I will all for it instead of paying $40/month for channels that I will never use. | |
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jimbo2150
join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH
 ·Dreamhost
·Armstrong Zoom In..
| TV BUST I agree the bandwidth isn't there.
I have the 3mb/PRO SBC package and I get the higher-bandwidth LAUNCHCast Music Videos but it is still worse than TV and I have also had trouble connecting to their servers recently (overloads? too many users?) and the video has been skipping baddly (didn't happen when I first got DSL).
Those services are very pre-mature for the industry that is yet to form.
Anyone else see another .com bust? Or .tv or whatetever they have...
I think they need to hold off for about another 7 to 10 years when most have the fiber high-speed (30mb/s or more)
AKA when all of the TVs in the house can be watching a seperate channel, VoIP also, and room left over for high-speed internet. | |
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CyberskyTV
@t-dialin.net |  There is enough bandwidth, see here!!
There is enough bandwidth for 400 kbit/s instant delivery !!!!
cybersky is a peer to peer TV-Sharing system | |
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Broadband TV
Don't knock it!