On Wednesday 20 July 2005 11:22, Joe Votour wrote: > I saw an article late last week about Time Warner > offering IPTV to their customers in San Diego. It was > just a duplicate of their regular cable offerings. > The big DSL providers (i.e. SBC here in the U.S.) will > likely be the first ones to offer it, since they don't > have any analog cable bandwidth to speak of. (Could > be that Time Warner is trying to beat SBC to the > punch.) > > IPTV support as a whole is a good thing for the > industry, but it will definitely have some growing > pains. A lot of the existing infrastructure isn't > designed for the bandwidth and routing that it will > require. > > Nonetheless, it will be nice when it comes in.
Sort of related, CNN is running a story on the possibility of 100 Mbit/s ethernet over cable broadband in the market as early as 2006. http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/20/technology/broadband.reut/index.htm -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
