Iptv Coming To The Big Dish

[whitewolf8214]

IPTV coming to the Big Dish by NPS as soon as spring of 2007.What do you think. A receiver as low as 250.00 and you can keep the dish on one satellite.

 

[Stargazer]

Whatever can be done on the big dish should be able to be done on the small dish even better I would think. I wonder how they are going to accomplish this and what the offerings are going to be and the price of getting the content.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The issue here is it will still be compressed, just because its sent in IP format does not mean better quality. IPTV Via satellite is just a different transmission method over DVB, which in its own right is a digital tranmission.

 

[iammike]

I think, the main reason that NPS is looking at this technology is that a lot of the programming is going to formats that are not compatible with the 4DTV receivers. It's not a matter of better picture it's a matter of being able to display the channels at all. In particular, are the HD channels. Most HD channels can't be decoded by our receivers. There's also a lot of SD, but NPS has been doing a pretty good job of re-uplinking most of those channels. They just don't have space to re-uplink HD channels though.

Last I heard, IPTV was still in the planning stages for NPS. They're looking at various providers but they've got a ways to go yet.

 

[Stargazer]

Isn't this also being looked at to offer VOD? This way you can access any program at any time? That is the future of television.