Thread: SD Broadcast TV to close by 2030?
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Old 04-12-2014, 13:39   #43
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Re: Broadcast TV to close by 2030?
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Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
Personally, I think there is room for both, and I don't think the current ISP networks would cope if broadcast TV stopped.

Something like Eastenders gets between 7 and 11 m viewers daily. With Unicasting (which is what all consumer streaming services, including Netflix) do, each extra viewer takes up extra bandwidth. Eastenders may take up 5Mbps, but it will require that 5mbps per user. Multicast internet is not really an option as it requires the stream to start at a certain time, so viewers lose the on demand option. However, Multicast internet shares an advantage with broadcasting. The programme being broadcast takes a finite amount of bandwidth regardless of how many viewers it has. So, Eastenders will take up 5Mbps regardless of whether it has 1 viewer or 11 million.
Is that true, that you cannot add something to 'on demand' that is currently being recorded by the provider? If you can do it with a home recorder, why can't you do it for this?
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