HOW TO MAKE VIDEO LOOK LIKE COMPLETE ASS

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:05 am

jonmartensen wrote:When it comes to the Hertz rating for a signal, it is not some arbitrary determination of the FCC. There are physical limitations to the medium through which a signal is delivered.

To say again...

why the hell did TCI and Rogers cable use crummy low-caliber copper cabling? We should all be using OPTICAL now! Either that, or Splatellite TV with dual Ethernet CAT 5.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:15 am

Maybe because cable started oh around 30yrs ago and copper was a more viable & cheaper method back then.

Redoing the whole system is not $$$ cost effective.

Cable is pretty darn fast. They don't even use a entire channels bandwidth and they get 30mbps for internet services.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:27 am

shoud be "an entire" :\

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:04 am

Cable is that old?

We should all go Japan-style and use the Internet for content distribution. Ethernet ports on every TV and stereo. Listen to commercial free webcast radio and watch The AMV Channel. Ditch HBO and Cinemax.

We're in the comms dark age here.

koronoru · Post by **koronoru** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:18 pm

danielwang wrote:We should all go Japan-style and use the Internet for content distribution. Ethernet ports on every TV and stereo. Listen to commercial free webcast radio and watch The AMV Channel. Ditch HBO and Cinemax.

North America is a lot bigger than Japan, and that makes a big difference. You need more cellular towers and a Hell of a lot more cable (whether it's copper, glass, or whatever) to cover the same number of people. It wouldn't physically impossible for us to get the same Internet coverage in North America that they have in Japan, but it would be a lot more difficult. There are also a lot of economic issues that would need to be sorted out, not to mention that powerful people in North America don't want the Internet to flourish until after they succeed in making it a one-way communications medium.

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:54 am

Yeah... but my method makes video look like ass