Microsoft Leading the Pack in an area where apple should be excelling

[MisterMe]

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It's entirely possible to do with H.264 and ADSL2, and let the telco's provide the content. Apple could just supply the set top box and compresson software. OR, they don't even have to supply anything really. If there were just some company coming out with IPTV that used an open codec for which you could use any box you wanted, then there wouldn't really be a problem IMO.

And the fact that ADSL 2 is for now a pipe dream does not enter into your thinking?

[Captain Code]

And the fact that ADSL 2 is for now a pipe dream does not enter into your thinking?

Why would it? It's being deployed already. It may only be in a few places but it's starting to be deployed. Bell Canada is also deploying ADSL2 or VDSL this year.

You can even read about it here
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/200...D887Q9U03.html
SBC Communications Inc. (SBC), the dominant local phone company from the Midwest to California, is deploying a full-blown IPTV system that it plans to launch by year-end in at least a few undisclosed markets.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Great. Now all these new-age technophiles will be sucking mega/gigabytes of bandwidth an hour watching IPTV while my internet slows to a crawl trying to do my damn homework.

Brilliant! Let's bog down the internet even more! :P

[Captain Code]

Great. Now all these new-age technophiles will be sucking mega/gigabytes of bandwidth an hour watching IPTV while my internet slows to a crawl trying to do my damn homework.

Brilliant! Let's bog down the internet even more! :P

Not really. As it is now, IPTV is local to the provider's network, and each house has the full 24Mbps to their house for the TV and internet connection. The way it works, you aren't sharing anything with other subscribers.

[MisterMe]

Not really. As it is now, IPTV is local to the provider's network, and each house has the full 24Mbps to their house for the TV and internet connection. The way it works, you aren't sharing anything with other subscribers.

Not true. You and your next door neighbor don't share bandwidth to your residence. However, you do share everything upstream of the central office.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

The entire internet is being shared for the most part. If every internet subscriber in California suddenly starts using the entirety of their bandwidth, you'd better belive we'd "feel" the effects all the way over in Texas.

[Captain Code]

Not true. You and your next door neighbor don't share bandwidth to your residence. However, you do share everything upstream of the central office.

Right, but in this case, the telco installs enough fiber to the node to handle it. So it's not a problem.

[Captain Code]

The entire internet is being shared for the most part. If every internet subscriber in California suddenly starts using the entirety of their bandwidth, you'd better belive we'd "feel" the effects all the way over in Texas.

With IPTV, the TV is only carried on the local network of the provider so it wouldn't have any effect on the internet.

There are a lot of people on my ISP who do >200GB a month in transfer and I can still max out my connection no problem any time of the day.