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Technology Stocks : CAWS - Wireless Cable (New and Improved)
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To: Zorro who wrote (701)12/5/1996 6:37:00 PM
From: Tim Chan   of 5812
 
Zorro writes:
> Tim, I understand how ADSL is ideal for VOD applications... this
> would definitely be in direct competition with the pay-per-view
> services offered by DBS, landline and wireless cable. But are
> you also implying that the VOD line-up could include "basic"
> and "premium" channels such that the television or set-top
> decoder (as we know it) would be useless since all the TV
> programming channels would now be available via ADSL (one
> channel at a time)?

Technically speaking, ADSL 'can' provide 'basic' and
'premium' channels via its downlink one channel at a time.
However, practically speaking, it would probably not happen
due to cost-to-returns reasons (at least for now). My point was to
illustrate that ADSL does not need to offer 120 simultaneous
channels as another gentleman had suggested; and that it can
offer 1000's of selections at the same time as opposed to
120. Afterall, when you watch TV, you usally watch one program
at a time, right? [Unless, of course, you use PIP.]

Tim.

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