dude2 said:
Would it be for the better or worse if the lawsuit merges D and E. No competion may make them lazy or would cable push them to the limit. Does cable have a limit on the amt of hd they can push through their cable. Also is cable hd lite hd?
Dave.
Not going to touch #1.
As for cable, yes they also have limits to the amount of bandwidth available to them. However, that limit varies based on the physical plant of the individual cable system. That's why one Comcast system (for example) might have more channels then the Comcast system in the next county. There are some cable systems that due to limited bandwidth are doing their own version of HD-Lite.
Cable's trying to make changes to get more bandwidth such as:
- Migrating from QAM-64 to QAM-256 modulation
- Moving analog channels to digital, you can fit maybe 10 analog channels in the same space as one if you convert it to digitial and compress
- Looking to move to switched video, just distrbute the channels people are viewing in a node vs. all the available channels
- Upgrade older systems cabling/electronics to increase bandwidth capacity