lra
join:2005-04-04
Omaha, NE
| [ALL] Television Video via IP/HSI
When does it make sense for COX to provide their TV programming via IP/HSI?
I would think a box with an Off-Air HDTV receiver (for locals), MPEG4 decoder for IP video streams and a hard disk for time-shift features... not much different from what DISH Network offers today, except the digital data would come in the ethernet port and not a satellite.
Currently, COX is 'multicasting' a bunch of channels (analog and digital), could this be easily done in the IP world?
Or, would every box opening one or two video streams grow to some exponentially disastrous way?
It seems to me that video on demand for ALL of our programming might be getting close to make practical sense. |
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NoVA_CoxUser
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join:2004-07-06
Alexandria, VA
 ·Cox HSI
3 edits | said by lra  : ... Currently, COX is 'multicasting' a bunch of channels (analog and digital) ... Other than a few premium channels still being broadcast in analog (e.g. 1 HBO and/or 1 SHO in some markets -- not here) where is this "multicasting" occuring and on what channels? |
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lra
join:2005-04-04
Omaha, NE | By 'multicasting' I mean COX ships out one stream for each channel for ALL users, and if this is duplicated with IP, I suspect IP 'multicasting' would have to be used as well. |
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NoVA_CoxUser
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Alexandria, VA
·Cox HSI
4 edits | So they're not actually "multicasting" today that you know of ?
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The IP data-rate of the entire video stream is ENORMOUS.
Could it be done ... of course ... given enough time and $$$.
Will it be done in the near future given the economic realities and the billions of dollars invested in existing legacy video hardware ... probably not. |
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Smokey
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Va Beach
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·Cox HSI
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Data storage costs, transport costs, and related equipment costs are still too high for wide deployment.
Most MSOs currently only offer around 1000-5000 hours of VOD because the costs of the equipment is just too high.
All IP will come, but I doubt we will see it until some new mpeg codecs are rolled out. The data demands would quickly saturate the system on current DOCSIS deployments. Packetcable will do most, if not all of this, but its still a way off right now.
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cableguy619
join:2003-06-24
Chula Vista, CA | reply to lra
By end of this year SBC will be pushing their effort to provide IPTV. It's on it's way to becoming full blown..if it works great if not it will be a waist |
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lra
join:2005-04-04
Omaha, NE | reply to lra
In PCMag's latest issue, John Dvorak had a mention of IPTV, he claims 10Mbps will stream live TV.
A bunch of IPTV links can be found at:
»www.dvorak.org/iptv/
Interesting stuff. |
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