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Old 08-08-2007, 10:56   #35
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Re: Play TV ??
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Originally Posted by brundles View Post
Yes, IPTV is completely different from streaming an individual file but that doesn't change the fact that it needs bandwidth. Sticking with a recognised format, take a 3 5 0 meg AVI file commonly found for 40 minutes worth of TV show. Running flat out on a half meg connection that takes nearly 2 hours to download. (Sorry for the spaces but the forum swear filter seems to think I'm trying to dodge it with three hundred and fifty as numbers!)
In the interest of fairness to teaboy2, I spent some time this morning chatting to a friend of mine who subscribes to an IPTV services. The service he subscribes to gives him the option of a 0.4meg service of a 0.7 meg service. While the 0.7 meg service is watchable his opinion is that it doesn't match the broadcast quality seen by TV viewers - and the 0.4 meg service, while just about watchable, looks awful when upscaled to HDTV resolutions. Again this is only his view, but he reckons we're looking at needing at least a 1meg stream to achieve standard broadcast quality - nevermind HD quality.

At that rate, 2 hours TV in an evening is about 700 meg - or over 20GB a month assuming you watch it for a couple of hours a day. In this instance with the half meg connection teaboy2 has referred to we're only looking at 10GB but that's still ruling out the budget broadband options.

If teaboy2 is still talking to me (I hope it comes across that I'm not deliberately being obtuse I'm just trying to understand the service that will be available and match that against what appears to be offered and what people will expect) I have another question...

The PlayTV website refers to "via your broadband (telephone line)" while the link you gave us earlier refers to you using Connexions 4 London as a carrier. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it but that implies (to me) that the broadband will need to be with Connexions 4 London and this is an ADSL only service. Or are you just using Connexions 4 London for your own backbone transport and any broadband (including cable for those of us that don't have a fixed line or BT or Cable) provider will work?
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