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Onramp · 22-12-2016, 19:10

Satellite lends itself well as a TV distribution platform when you need a huge amount of bandwith over a huge area (such as UHD TV feeds).

As more and more use of streaming TV occurs, owners of coaxial and fibre networks have two huge advantages over satellite and those are bandwith-per-unit-area (in both directions) and latency.

It's interesting to see how satellite became the dominant means for distribution of direct to home pay TV signals - and how that will change again as more and more fibre is planted in the ground and viewing becomes more personalized. Mobile bandwith also lends itself better to streaming single TV channels per user when compared with fixed blocks of UHF spectrum over a wide area. Satellite may again revert to being used mainly for feeds while land-based optical networks become the new norm for multichannel TV.

22-12-2016, 19:10	#1021
Onramp Inactive Join Date: Sep 2016 Posts: 210	Re: The future for linear TV channels Satellite lends itself well as a TV distribution platform when you need a huge amount of bandwith over a huge area (such as UHD TV feeds). As more and more use of streaming TV occurs, owners of coaxial and fibre networks have two huge advantages over satellite and those are bandwith-per-unit-area (in both directions) and latency. It's interesting to see how satellite became the dominant means for distribution of direct to home pay TV signals - and how that will change again as more and more fibre is planted in the ground and viewing becomes more personalized. Mobile bandwith also lends itself better to streaming single TV channels per user when compared with fixed blocks of UHF spectrum over a wide area. Satellite may again revert to being used mainly for feeds while land-based optical networks become the new norm for multichannel TV.