Re: Boundary cases? in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18245077 en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:43:25 EDT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:43:25 EDT Re: Boundary cases? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18248988 patcat88 :
said by BosstonesOwn See Profile :

Whats the error message now ?

"Please wait while we make this channel available" ? Some thing along those lines ?
Yep, same way VOD errors out. Nothing you can do unless you have FIOS TV, or switch to satellite.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18248988 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:16:47 EDT Re: Boundary cases? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18247569 sensualpoet :
said by swhx7 See Profile :

said by justbits See Profile :

What happens when everybody in the neighborhood tunes in to a different channel?
The probability may not be so low. ... But what about the practice of just flipping through the channels, one after another, to see what's on?
SDV does not have to be implemented as an all-or-nothing strategy. If a node neighbourhhood is 500 TV STBs, and there are 500 channels from the cableco, you'd never get all 500 being used at once. So you could continue to send, via non-SDV, the most popular 100 channels, 24/7 -- and only switch the remaining 400. You'd still save masses of bandwidth which could be recycled for On Demand and HD uses. SDV, other than some software on the STB, is efficient network management magic at the head-end. The "neighbourhoods" can be reconfigured on the fly, if you wanted to, shrunken or enlarged, to suit usage patterns.

Between reclaiming analog spectrum and SDV, coax has a huge amount of life in it yet.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18247569 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:09:04 EDT Re: Boundary cases? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18245837 nanoflower : Depending on how things are done there's no need for there to be a problem. They could allocate bandwidth that's free for both data and videeo. So if the switched video needs more bandwidth because of people channel flipping or everyone watching another channel then that bandwidth is allocated to video. If not then it gets allocated to data. The data bandwidth would be used for extra data features like Powerboost instead of being a constant data rate booth.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18245837 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:57:32 EDT Re: Boundary cases? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18245428 MadMANN :
The probability may not be so low. When the benefits of SDV are described it always seems to be based on the assumption that each customer watches one show at a time for the length of a show, or at least the time between commercials. But what about the practice of just flipping through the channels, one after another, to see what's on? I believe this is very common, and it would seem to defeat the benefits of SDV.
If you really knew how it works, you wouldn't worry too much. With anything new, there are bugs in the beginning, but the benefits will be awesome for everyone once it is actually launched working as it is intended. I, for one, can't wait. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18245428 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:37:02 EDT Re: Boundary cases? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18245077 swhx7 :
said by justbits See Profile :

What happens when everybody in the neighborhood tunes in to a different channel? Sure the possibility of that happening is probably extremely low, but I haven't heard anything about that boundary condition.
The probability may not be so low. When the benefits of SDV are described it always seems to be based on the assumption that each customer watches one show at a time for the length of a show, or at least the time between commercials. But what about the practice of just flipping through the channels, one after another, to see what's on? I believe this is very common, and it would seem to defeat the benefits of SDV.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18245077 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:16:47 EDT Re: Boundary cases? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18243699 BosstonesOwn : Whats the error message now ?

"Please wait while we make this channel available" ? Some thing along those lines ?
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18243699 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:41:02 EDT Boundary cases? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18243355 justbits : What happens when everybody in the neighborhood tunes in to a different channel? Sure the possibility of that happening is probably extremely low, but I haven't heard anything about that boundary condition.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18243355 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:26:58 EDT