We'll see. It's unclear to me at this moment exactly how FiOS works. If it really is point-to-point, there's no reason it ever has to overcompress a channel, unless they decide to do so in order to allow you to watch more programs at once in a single household.
But if it really shares bandwidth at some point within the system, it might be beneficial to compress the channels further.
I'm currently skeptical that FiOS can deliver true point-to-point video forever. It would seem it would run into the head-end problem at some point. It seems inescapable.
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why not the LS2LS7? @ Apr 21st 2008 8:15PM
We'll see. It's unclear to me at this moment exactly how FiOS works. If it really is point-to-point, there's no reason it ever has to overcompress a channel, unless they decide to do so in order to allow you to watch more programs at once in a single household.
But if it really shares bandwidth at some point within the system, it might be beneficial to compress the channels further.
I'm currently skeptical that FiOS can deliver true point-to-point video forever. It would seem it would run into the head-end problem at some point. It seems inescapable.
I do know one thing about FiOS. It's awesome.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MiHsxQJ9ZOo