http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/ Engadget HD Comments for http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/Jun 5th 2007 12:42PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/Jun 5th 2007 1:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/"Switched Digital" sounds like an IPTV bandwidth-saving scheme. Good for them [Time Warner]. Perhaps if they really want to get the maximum bandwidth possible, they should scrap analog cable completely and permanently write-off the cost of all of those krappy Scientific Atlanta analog cable boxes that look like the designer took the wood grain panels on the original Atari 2600 VCS as a design inspiration. Dump analog cable and drop basic digital cable down to the same price. They'd undercut the satellite companies, and they'd still probably triple their profits in the process. Nah, that's too smart of an idea for Time Warner Cable or Comcast.

]]>Jun 5th 2007 7:57PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/Jun 6th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.tivolovers.com/2007/05/10/mr-tivo-goes-to-washington/]]>Jun 6th 2007 2:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/
Yes, SDV is similar to IPTV. Instead of sending all the channels into your home, your STB requests a specific channel and only that channel is sent over the SDV frequency. It is much like VOD, just transparent to the user.]]>Jun 6th 2007 2:40PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/
IPTV runs over a IP packed switched network which means that it can more effectively use the total amount of bandwidth. SDV runs over normal QAM channels which share a single QAM channel, (just like VOD) which usually means more bits are wasted.]]>Jun 6th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/Jun 6th 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/05/time-warner-to-deploy-switched-digital-to-50-of-their-markets-i/
At least they work on our network and ip STB's anyways...]]>Jun 13th 2007 8:21PM