"Of course, all of these different forms of transmission are taking place from the content houses to the carrier in question, right?"
Frank- Yes. Sorry about that. I didn't make it clear. I did mean all content, in whatever format, by whatever means, is being sent to the carrier's headend. In this case the telco CO-headend(for lack of a better word), for distribution via the telco's VDSL, fiber-twisted pair, plant.
"The limitation in VDSL is the number of "simultaneous TV sessions" that can be supported to the home at any point in time. This is because of the restrictions imposed by "only" having 26 or 52 Mb/s available from the start over the copper pair."
Yes. And what a limitation! I try to avoid TV and I'm still stuck with three TV sets in my house. I can imagine most households, with lots of little ones running around, probably have 4 or 5 sets. And it wouldn't surprise me if they have them all on at the same time, tuned to different stations. With a VDSL TV model, this is a BIG problem.
On the same note, I just happened to read a little piece on direct broadcast satellite(DBS). In the article it said DBS is limited to tuning in only two channels per household. Do you know if this is accurate? Thanks. -MikeM(From Florida)
PS Fun fact: There are 1,000,000,000 TV households in the world today. Just 10% are in the United States. Of this, my estimates are only 13,000,000 are digital capable. Exciting info for a Last Mile investor. |
