Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

Fri Jun 26 22:23:00 UTC 2015

10Gbps inside the home at an economical price for the phys means IP Multicast can finally be a viable alternative (replacement for) HDMI.

No more will you connect one Blu-Ray player to One Amp to One TV. You’ll just connect them all to ethernet.

Amps and TVs will have UIs which allow you to subscribe to streams provided by Blu-Rays and other media sources.

Want to watch something on two TVs while listening to the audio through a particular amp in the house, no problem. Set up the
stream on the provider device and subscribe on the TVs and the Amp. When it’s all set, press play and enjoy. Want to pause
it and move to a third TV and change amps? No problem. Pause, reconfigure the subscriptions, and resume.

Of course this will require the RIAA and their friends to either come up with new ways to be obnoxious to consumers or
to perform an extraction of their crania from their collective rectums about DRM in order to be viable, but I’m sure one or
more of those things will happen eventually.

Owen

> On Jun 26, 2015, at 15:15 , Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
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> On 26/Jun/15 23:56, Mark Andrews wrote:
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>> Unfortunately ISP's have made it about link speed rather than what
>> it really is about because link speed was the limiting factor.
> 
> When 1Gbps becomes mainstream to the home, I think it will stop being
> about link speed (well, for a while anyway, because who knows...).
> 
> As others have mentioned, a single device pulling 1Gbps in the home is
> asking a lot, even if it were connected to the home router via
> copper/fibre. As most devices in the home will be wi-fi-based, 1Gbps is
> safe (for now). Of course, more devices in the home will put pressure on
> 1Gbps, but not before they put pressure on the wi-fi network. So again,
> 1Gbps is safe, for now.
> 
> The wired devices that could draw on that 1Gbps big time will be the
> STB's, gaming consoles (even those use wi-fi), home media servers,
> e.t.c. Depending on what one does with those, they may or may not draw
> much from the 1Gbps fibre coming into the house.
> 
> Even if the service provider was dropping a 1080p or 4K IPTv Multicast
> stream into 3x STB's in the home (one for the living room, one for the
> man-cave and another random one in the house), and each STB had at least
> two tuners (watch on one tuner, record from another tuner), you're still
> looking at less than 120Mbps for all 3x STB's running + recording
> simultaneously, assuming each tuner is pulling 20Mbps when active. Of
> course, with 2015 families not glued to their Tv's as much as previous
> generations did, that is less demand for classic Tv.
> 
> So all in all, with 1Gbps, there is a reasonable chance that, at the
> very least, the connection between the home and the nearest service
> provider switch will be utilitarian. The problem now is, who gets that
> 1Gbps link to their house, around the world?
> 
> Mark.
> 