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Topic: 1080P screens
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 01-05-2006 03:15 PM
How would 1080p over IP work? It could happen through at least a couple different methods.
The most obvious method is by way using the HDTV as a computer monitor. Call up a certain website, click on the show you want to watch and have it run in any number of different media players that can operate full screen (such as Quicktime 7 for example).
Another method is "IPTV", which is kind of like cable TV service but based on the same principal as VOIP. There are IPTV services already in existence within parts of Europe and Asia.
quote: Lyle Romer
I ask because it sounds like it can get pretty expensive. Existing cable/satellite systems don't need a dedicated "pipe" for each customer.
Perhaps something I've already said bears repeating: 100Mb/s and faster broadband speeds will be common several years in the future. They're not available right now, but they will be. And certainly by 2015 the prices for 100Mb/s connections will be affordable. Probably by then we'll see higher end pipes doing 200Mb/s or even full gigabit speeds.
The ever-widening data pipes will cause a lot of consolidation in TV programming and Internet services. Eventually most people will get their cable TV service, Internet service, phone service and more over IP. The shifts will happen when the IP-based alternatives offer better quality than their traditional counterparts.
Just at the telecom industry is worrisome about VOIP, especially free versions of it, the movie industry and television broadcast industries should be worried about what high bandwidth Internet pipes will bring in new competition.
One reason why movies have been so derivatively awful on average is that it costs a profane fortune to make a movie and a shrinking number of corporations are controlling more and more of the distribution channels. A really good independent feature has a hard time gaining any screens. In the future, and at least in terms of video on demands downloads via IP, independent filmmakers and filmmakers outside the U.S. will have an easier time getting their product showcased. I can see major film festivals offering up high bandwidth "seats" online to check out new movies. Sure, this kind of thing won't kill a major distribution company. But the innovative movies can get a few of those old executives working in those major distribution companies fired. That's the real purpose in all that corporate consolidation. It's all about a few executives trying as best as they can to protect their turf.
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