Echostar invests in CinemaNow: HD VOD soon?

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Belcho @ Jul 13th 2006 7:38PM

How will they provide it? From my understanding of VOD there has to be 2-way communication for it. Which satellite only does with a phone line, but I don't think that's enough bandwidth for VOD. I've heard rumblings about satellite boxes with ethernet ports that could function in that way, but nothing on the market for it yet. And it would still require broadband service, which everyone doesn't have.
This will be pretty interesting to watch, as cable heavily touts VOD as something that satellite can't offer. It would be a great equalizer and competition is always good for the consumer.

The reason there's less HD on cable is because analog channels hog all the bandwidth. It's a double-edged sword. All digital is great, but you need some kind of converter (box or card) to decode it, right now anyway. Analog allows you to do that very easily without any extra eqipment.
I say bring on the digital transition, but I'm not sure exactly how that will effect cable companies. Because that transition is a mandate for all OTA broadcasters to go digital. Cable companies don't broadcast OTA.

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