Being the avid rugby fan that I am, I tried to watch the Tri=nations game between Australia and South Africa on Sky Sports 2 on Saturday.
However, the image quality was so poor that the game was unwatchable. It looked like a 500Kbps Windows Media stream.
This just goes to show the problems that the TV delivery companies are facing as they add more channels - and especially as they add bandwidth hungry HD channels.
The answer is to change from an 'always on' switched delivery network, where a few hundred channels are 'always on' for every viewer to a 'server switched' model whereby only one channel is delivered to a customer and this is then switched at the server end when the viewer wishes to change channels. Tens of thousands of channels can be made available to any viewer.
However, the image quality was so poor that the game was unwatchable. It looked like a 500Kbps Windows Media stream.
This just goes to show the problems that the TV delivery companies are facing as they add more channels - and especially as they add bandwidth hungry HD channels.
The answer is to change from an 'always on' switched delivery network, where a few hundred channels are 'always on' for every viewer to a 'server switched' model whereby only one channel is delivered to a customer and this is then switched at the server end when the viewer wishes to change channels. Tens of thousands of channels can be made available to any viewer.
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