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Originally Posted by andygrif
Well from what I understand....
You're not a million miles away Ian. What will happen is that the STB will be the PC (in effect) and your TV the monitor.
This means it opens up video on demand, I also assume it would be possible demand a live stream (such as BBC1) which would drastically reduce the bandwidth requirement to your home as you're only getting one channel at a time.
Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree (or just plain barking) in which case I'm sure someone will correct me!
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But why are they metioning Liberate middleware?
The live stream will not reduce current bandwidth because it's currently a Broadcast medium, the only advantage would be if they were going to close down the Digital CATV network and use the capacity entirely for VOD and interactive services.
Highly unlikely, and ntl has that little problem of money anyway.