Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. II.
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Old 13-04-2011, 13:54   #366
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. II.
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Originally Posted by pauldavies83 View Post
Or Sky dropping some sort of Flash player/HTML renderer into their code to access the existing publicly available apps.
It's not as simple as that.
The boxes have to have a chipset that is capable of running said player.

It's not like a PC where you have the processing grunt to do whatever you feel like, these are specialist chipsets with highly specialised instruction sets that do a limited amount of tasks extremely well, and that's about it. Everything they do is hardware accelerated, whereas a PC you can just do it in software.

If the chipset the boxes run don't support flash then no amount of code dropping will bring them flash support.

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Originally Posted by GODLY View Post
Fujitsu unveils plans to bring fibre to 5 million homes and businesses in rural Britain


London, 13th April 2011 — Fujitsu, one of the world’s largest technology and communications companies, today announced plans to work in collaboration with Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco to deliver next generation internet services to 5 million homes in rural Britain.

http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/news/pr/fs_20110413.html


I know the press release only talks about Broadband but with Virgin Media's collaboration, does this mean that they will also use this for TV services?

Good if they do!
You know schemes like this actually annoy me.

Why the hell does rural Britain need FTTH, and why the hell should rural Britain end up with subsidised internet access that is FAR greater than what city dwellers will get?

Sure bring them decent access in line with what most cities can get, but FTTH capable of 1gbps? Give me a break.

I doubt most urban areas will see FTTH for a long long time. Hey maybe when the countryside has it the government can throw some money at catching the cities up with the rural areas!
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