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Originally Posted by Paul M
What you (and the people going on about the caps and "you will use it in 5 minutes") keep forgetting, or overlooking, is that it doesn't make a blind bit of difference if you have a 10M/25M/50M or a 1GB connection - downloads will only be as fast as the overall connection speed. If the far end server is on a 2MB connection then that's all you will get (and then only if you are the only person downloading).
In fact, the one time this won't be true is if the file already resides on the ntl proxy you have been routed through - then it will serve you up the file from its cache, and since it's on the ntl network, you should get it much faster (score 1 for the proxies  ) |
I think that you have to look at what speeds like 50 mbps would be used for. It won't be for browsing websites, email or downloading warez.
We will shortly be moving to High Definition TV and the only company that has showed its hand is Sky with a HDTV service expected to start in the first half of 2006. How will the cablocos compete with that?
Bandwidth for DTV is said to be limited on cable particularly with Analogue channels still being broadcast. They could stop analogue transmission well ahead of the 2012 expected cut-off moving existing analogue customers to digital. Sky did this some years back and haven't suffered as a result.
NTL could use a 25 or 50 mbps broadband service for transmission of HDTV content. They could introduce a new HD STB that caters for these HD transmissions by connection to your HDTV as well as providing broadband internet access. This would have to cater for standard TV transmissions as well as HD for many years until HD is the standard. It would also have to have PVR capabilities and multiple tuners in order to be playing on the same field as Sky+ HDTV.
Technology exists to do things this way, the question being does the cash?