What's going to happen to the overall price for SA IPTV (not only payment to SA but to ISP for service) when broadband usage caps go into effect?
I can imagine that, for people who watch a significant number of hours per day, the costs could be prohibitive, especially if IPTV ever goes to 1080p resolution.
Sky Angel not going to get to HD quality, let alone 1080p anytime soon. To the best of my knowledge 1080p is not a broadcast standard, its only being used by the two satellite companies, DTV and Dish for OnDemand. It's also used in blu-ray DVD and Playstation 3.
I would be surprised if Sky Angel does HDTV anytime in the next 2 to 3 years. To calculate your bandwidth usage, start with about 900 kilobits per second.... Covert that to kilobytes per second. Kilobits and kilobytes ... megabits and megabytes are very different. Most computer users do not know this. You can find a free online calculator by doing a google search.
When I first got SA in March, I calculated that with 3 hours a day of using SA, I would use about 36 GB (gigabytes) of data per month. Someone can double check my math and see if I'm right...