jjanis;271166 Wrote: > > Think about the bandwidth required to stream 1080p content to thousands > and millions of customers. Can you imagine it becoming available anytime > soon? I don't think so. > JJanis
It will happen, but not for many more years. The BW is available now to make it a breeze(fiber to the home), its still just too expensive becuase of the infrasture investment that needs to be made. That is why DSL and Cable modems have been successfull-- they work on the already existing infrastructure. I have COMCAST cable service with streaming service they call ON DEMAND. It streams audio and video over the cable to my box. Even HD content in 1080i with Dolby Digital 5.1. So, actually, I think they could even do 1080p and uncompressed 5.1 audio (I'm guessing it would take twice as much more BW?). They are just waiting for more widespread adoption of 1080p before they begin to offer it (and probably charge more for it!) I'd say its still several years away, so that brings us back to my original point. Why wait? Players were as low as $299 last Christmas. I got my Blu Ray player for free with purchase of the TV last month. I bet now we'll see blu ray players under $200 by summer and maybe even a $129 unit by Christmas... -- Zten ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1810 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43609 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
