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Steve That's mostly because the DVR boxes given by the cable companies (mine is a Moto from Comcast) are terrible. The UI just plain is unusable esp for on-demand portion of the DVR guide. I have caught up with the thread this morning and I have to say, I don't understand why people think of video distribution via the Internet as "channels." The only reason why channels exist is due to the medium when TV was started. I expect the next generation of video to be a lot like GooTube or iTunes. Most of it is pushed while you are sleeping and a few (<200) mcast streams for live content like news, etc. The question I asked earlier was, whether the last-mile SP networks can handle 24x7 100% link utilization for all of their customers. I don't think they can. And frankly, I don't know how they are going to get revenue from the content distributors to upgrade the networks. Does Apple reimburse Comcast (my SP) when I download a song? I don't think so? What about a movie? Again, I don't think so. You see where I am going with this. Bora > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Sobol > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:37 PM > To: Mikael Abrahamsson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a > day, continuously? > > > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > > My experience is that when you show people VoD, they like it. > > I have to admit the wow factor is there. But I already have > access to VoD > through my cable company and its set-top boxes. TV over IP brings my > family exactly zero additional benefits. >
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