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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9725)12/15/2000 4:02:32 PM
From: MikeM54321  Read Replies (4) of 12823
 
Re: Digital TV - VOD TWX Details

ftth- I looked up some facts about my current VOD service(I watched my first VOD movie last night and it worked flawlessly). I understand your upstream arguments about why the MSOs may be constrained in their rollouts. That was why I wanted to look up how my current rollout is being accomplished. These figures don't mean a great deal to me and I'm wondering if anything surprises you about them. These are all exclusive to the Tampa Bay area:

-Time Warner is using Concurrent's MediaHawk system.
-TWX purchased 36 MediaHawk servers for this rollout.
-34 are in hub sites. 2 are in regional headends.
-There are 35,000 digital TV subs today.
-17,500 is the target for VOD services.
-There are 1 million subs total(analog and digital)

I have to say, in my very first VOD rental, I was quite impressed with the ease of use. You hit a few buttons to navigate about five categories of movies. Once you pick a category, you scroll down to the movie of your choice. Hit Play on the remote control and bingo! The movie starts and TWX racked up a $3.95 sale from me. While watching the movie you have access to VCR like controls(fast forward, reverse, pause).

If TWX puts their entire movie library on the servers, I can't imagine why I would ever need to go to block buster again to rent an analog VCR tape.

Now the part I'm curious about is the ratio of VOD subs to servers. At this point it appears they may try to put 486 subs per server. And you would think their may be about 500 or so subs per hub. So I wonder how realistic this is, if say everyone wanted to watch a movie. Would this system crash and burn?

If they deploy all these servers right out in the hubs. That's pretty close to the customers. I wonder if this would solve the bandwidth problem? Thanks for any comments you can offer. -MikeM(From Florida)
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