They'd have a lot more bandwidth available for Internet and HD if they abandoned their analog services. There are also more aggressive MPEG4 systems out there that produce high quality images with less bandwidth being used by IPTV companies.
---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:19 AM Subject: [WISPA] cable throughput > It's interesting to me that the cable companies who at present have some > of the fastest available consumer broadband speeds are actually shooting > themselves in the foot by giving the bandwidth to cable modems, but at > the same time running out of space for their tv programming. > > Here's a decent article talking about HD and the complaints from it's > customers. > Notice the amount of bandwidth to deliver some HD channels. > > snip/ > For example, Discovery's bit rate was 14.16 megabits per second on > Verizon's FiOS system but only 10.43 Mbps on Comcast; A&E HD was 18.66 > Mbps on FiOS compared with 14.48 Mbps on Comcast. The FiOS system didn't > offer Sci Fi HD, which Fowler's testing showed at 12.59 Mbps on Comcast. > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080421/ap_on_hi_te/compressed_hd;_ylt=AuEPJDRe3CN7TvgY1hhBuN0jtBAF > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
