Thread: General Sky fibre optic coming
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Old 30-01-2018, 00:02   #26
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Re: Sky fibre optic coming

I think this will come from a software upgrade to the Sky Q boxes that allow streaming via the ethernet port and by proxy via WiFi to other boxes in the house. They'll probably use HEVC to start with and recommend minimum 50Mb/s and suggest that for multiple channels at once you need even more bandwidth. With 1Gbit/s in the pipeline however, in a few years, it won't be an issue.

Satellite won't go away fully until broadcast TV itself becomes unprofitable, I think.
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