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Originally Posted by Horizon
280Mhz of spectrum will be freed up when analogue is shut down. There is around 750Mhz in total.
DOCSIS 3 takes up around 15% of spectrum. Once analogue is shutdown, some of that freed up capacity will be used to bond the upstream channels on DOCSIS 3.
(In English, this means faster uploads)
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Cool!
I really feel that we should have less asymmetry in the downstram / upstream speeds on cable broadband. So, maybe 10 & 2Mb/s, 20 & 4Mb/s, 50 & 10Mb/s and higher. Ideally it would lead to a VDSL-like service with upload and download speeds adjusting to demand but, as this would be more like a business broadband service, it's unlikely.
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Originally Posted by Horizon
He expects within 12-24 months to launch an application that will enable users to pause a tv programme on one tv, then resume the programme on a PC in another room, as but one example of IPTV/next gen tv.
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Cool!
Let's go to bed and watch the rest of the movie upstairs!
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Originally Posted by Horizon
(Note, I don't expect anything until 2011 at the earliest, because the contract with Liberate, who supplies the EPG to VM, doesn't expire until then. So, I don't expect to see Berkets's wonderful new IPTV/next gen applications until then. I'm happy to be proven wrong)
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I know we've been through this discussion with contracts for channels and their time-shift and High Definition variants but surely, if VM are ready to introduce ground-breaking advances in their delivery mechanism, they would already be in negotiations with their EPG supplier or with a new supplier for the new platform.