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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle
I am aware of that and indeed made mention of it and the requirement to increase bandwidth or use a more efficient delivery mechanism further up the thread. However, eventually all TV will be HD* and 3D will be the next big thing, followed no doubt by an even higher definition standard, so the infrastructure will have to be able to facilitate this by a number of possible means including:-
- Better use of the existing bandwidth
- Expanding the bandwidth of the existing infrastructure (as is already being done for broadband)
- Improved delivery mechanisms (such as IPTV)
- FDDH - Fibre to the Home as opposed to co-ax from the street cabinet (see Fibre to the x)
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I am not sure about 3D being the next big thing.
Virgin Media are expanding bandwith for HD channels to 80 HD channels by Dec 2013. That will increase even more than that when they switch to MPEG4 which they will likely do in 4 or 5 years when everyone is on the TiVo platform.