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Old 18-12-2007, 14:20   #101
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Re: Virgin Media announces 50mb lines from next year.

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Originally Posted by lostandconfused View Post
I love the way on this forum, that a rumour is discussed, then a few posts later it becomes a fact, then its an outrage, then everyone should cancel their services etc.

STM on the 50mb is a rumour, I doubt VM have even set a price for the service, its still in testing. I think its a bit early to judge a service until its actually launched and you have tried it...
I've said this about alot of topics on the forum and the way they progress.

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Originally Posted by pooper View Post
Surely that would be a ready why it would be STM'd ?

They have to make sure that if they're going to provide streaming TV services, it's not rendered useless due to network congestion... therefore surely STM would make sense?

Anyway i'm assuming they can differentiate between internet + streaming TV data, and therefore not count the TV 'data' as part of your limit?

Pure guesswork really.. but it would make sense from what i can see.
At the moment the VOD and digital muxes are sent on differing frequencies to the modem D/S. So the D/S for the cable modems wouldn't be affected by this. When the analogue frequencies are removed there will be bags of space to do even more with, and also there will better ways of using the bandwidth to send the Digital/HD content to the customers STB like Switched Digital Video,(SDV) and many others.

E.G http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_vide
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