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Let's hope the FCC shows some backbone
Topic Started: Aug 5 2010, 01:54 PM (353 Views)
Axtremus
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40711.html
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Aug 5 2010, 01:54 PM
I wasn't aware the FCC had any backbone.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Not sure what this means. However, a digression:

I have a colleague who owns a small cable TV company. We discuss internet and cable TV a lot, especially as he supplies internet to many of his customers. My opinion, after watching my kids, is that cable is going to either die, else morph into something different. My kids watch prime time shows on their computers the next day...... or weeks later. My oldest is watching Band of Brothers streamed over the internet. I've watched some episodes of Lost that I missed, over the internet.

My colleague states that the cable providers are going to have this stopped - or hidden behind a payment that must be made. I tell him he's crazy - my kids won't watch the show and it'll die, if they have to pay. Precedent has been set and it's too late to change.

The FCC oversees both the cable industry and the internet I believe.

So who would you side with?


[Oh yeah, I think HD is also in trouble - my kids watch on laptops and cellphones - mobile seems to be more important than screen size and resolution]

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Good point, Iain. While I was watching the first two episodes of Rubicon on my 27" monitor (not bad, by the way) for free, my cable TV was on in the room - unwatched. Given the choice, I'd rather watch something on a 27" screen that's less than 24" from me than a 46" TV that's 8 feet away.
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Was that the episode where the secret society comes up with the idea of the internet to help subliminally get their messages out to the masses?

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Aug 5 2010, 06:59 PM
Not sure what this means. However, a digression:

I have a colleague who owns a small cable TV company. We discuss internet and cable TV a lot, especially as he supplies internet to many of his customers. My opinion, after watching my kids, is that cable is going to either die, else morph into something different. My kids watch prime time shows on their computers the next day...... or weeks later. My oldest is watching Band of Brothers streamed over the internet. I've watched some episodes of Lost that I missed, over the internet.

My colleague states that the cable providers are going to have this stopped - or hidden behind a payment that must be made. I tell him he's crazy - my kids won't watch the show and it'll die, if they have to pay. Precedent has been set and it's too late to change.

The FCC oversees both the cable industry and the internet I believe.

So who would you side with?


[Oh yeah, I think HD is also in trouble - my kids watch on laptops and cellphones - mobile seems to be more important than screen size and resolution]

It's pretty elegant that we get to use all that cable infrastructure for the internet, the thing that's obsoleting what the cable was originally intended for.
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Aug 5 2010, 07:25 PM
It's pretty elegant that we get to use all that cable infrastructure for the internet, the thing that's obsoleting what the cable was originally intended for.
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I think cable is dying.

The next question though....what about satellite? Lots of us out here with no cable anywhere near...
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Cable as a transmission medium will not die for a long time, for the simple reason that there are a lot of co-axial cables buried underground and wired around houses. These co-axial cables are a lot more future-proof than the those UTP telephone wires because co-axial is a high bandwidth medium. So there's still a lot that can be milked off those co-axial cables before the bean counters can justify replacing them with something else (e.g., fiber optic cables).

"Cable TV" as a subscription service and as a cash cow ... that's a different matter and we can debate how long that model can be sustained. I suspect, regardless of whether it's "cable" or "not cable," all subscription TV services will be met with the same fate more or less at the same time and for roughly the same reasons.
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Aug 6 2010, 06:31 AM
Lots of us out here with no cable anywhere near...
Don't worry. President Obama has a program for that. You just make sure that the Republicans don't filibuster its funding. :thumb:
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These co-axial cables are a lot more future-proof than the those UTP telephone wires because co-axial is a high bandwidth medium. So there's still a lot that can be milked off those co-axial cables before the bean counters can justify replacing them with something else (e.g., fiber optic cables).


I don't agree. While coax is higher bandwidth than phone wires, the best that is achieved today is short of 200Mbps. DOCSIS (which is the spec used for cable modems) is somewhere in this region using channel bonding, as does MOCA (Verizon's FIOS). This is really not much - fast forward of a digital HD movie can eat up 100Mbps. Fiber is really the only high bandwidth medium at this point in time. South Korea prides itself on the highest bandwidth to the home and are currently standardising on 100Mbps to each home. Multi unit condos and apartment blocks that are used to 100 cable channels on 1 coax from the street, must be rewired for the higher bandwidth. [does one refer to the installation of fiber optic as re-wiring, or perhaps "glassing" ? :sombrero: ]
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Follow-up :

Google & Verizon's joint policy proposal on "net neutrality" : http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40828.html
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Not surprisingly, Free Press blasts it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-aaron/google-verizon-pact-it-ge_b_676194.html
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More knocking: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/09/google-verizon-proposal-r_n_676019.html
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