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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
> Bring that box to the living room in an attractive package and > the stats will be very different. This kind of box is very popular in England. It is called a digital TV receiver and it receives MPEG-2 streams broadcast freely over the airwaves. Some people, myself included, have a receiver that with a hard disk that allows pausing live TV and scheduling recording from the electronic program guide which is part of the broadcast stream. Given that the broadcast model for streaming content is so successful, why would you want to use the Internet for it? What is the benefit? --Michael Dillon
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