[opendtv] Re: Now Comcast is moving to TV anytime, anywhere...
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:26:21 -0600
Craig Birkmaier posted:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/business/media/16comcast.html?th&emc=th
Comcast Introduces a Streaming TV Service
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We've seen this coming for a few months now. The cable companies have created a
walled garden of sorts, using the Internet to deliver the appropriate shows to
their subscribers (i.e. whatever tier the subscriber belongs to).
So now the question is, why not the cable company use their broadband pipe to
deliver the TV content to the subscriber this same way, even while the
subscriber is at home?
They used to talk about "switched video," or some name to that effect, as a way
to make more bandiwdth available in that last mile link. (I always thought it
was mainly a ploy to make generic PVRs unworkable.) But instead now, that
switched video idea makes good sense, and all of the 6 MHz frequency channels
on the coax part of the HFC infrastructure could be devoted to IP broadband.
Bert
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