On January 17, 2006 at 11:41, Spiky said...
I am no fan of cable. But your assertion that
sat would be all HD is borderline ludicrous. First,
there aren't that many HD channels, and the provider
companies don't own the channels, so this fact
has little to do with them. Second, they do not
have the bandwidth for that, even if they dropped
all their SD channels. That's why they (DirecTV)
had to upgrade to modern sats.
I have to challenge your bandwidth facts. Granted, the content is and will always be an issue, DirecTV doesn't control how the networks record their shows and it wouldn't be all HD just because the satellite bandwidth was available. If you factor in all the Satellite transponders beaming tightly focused signals down to specific cities only (that's how they control access), you'll find quite a bit of satellite hardware devoted to just that, local channels for a very specifc region of the country rather than non-directed signals beaming content to all.
That was really my point if you want to get specific...
JFetter
