HD Networks: How Much Carriage Is Necessary?

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I went looking for tangential answers to that at Infocomm. Found nothing to
speak of, but the telcos are putting a big push on fiber to the home (FTTH).
They plane to be a player and leap over the cable cos. But the cables cos.
Are already using fiber in the street and will not have a difficult time
putting it to your back wall when necessary. I am working with TW here and
asked them about a 100+ project were are doing with them and whether they
planned to pull fiber into it. No, we have an abundance of band width down
cable now was the reply, and this facility is being served cable, telephone
and internet via TW. I am interested in seeing what wiring architecture they
are doing that makes them so confident.

Regardless, FTTH is coming rather quickly in many parts as the telcos are in
a race to save their bottom (lines) from sinking and multiple services
(increased band width) they see as an economic savior.

There are many trade on-line daily/weekly sources that report this. If you
will email me off-list I will send links for you.



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From: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:56 PM
To: HDTV Magazine
Subject: HD Networks: How Much Carriage Is Necessary?

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My apologies for the cross-post of this topic both to here and AVS,
but I'm curious as to what knowledgeable people think of the following:

I've been blogging lately about cable's attempt to find more space
for HD channels, and everything I've read so far indicates that even
though there will be a gradual expansion in HD space, there may still
be a large and growing "channel gap" between what cable can do and
what various alternatives (like satellite and FIOS) will be offering
in the next few years.

The question for me is; if a planned HD network knows that they may
have to rely on non-cable distribution until cable's capacity catches
up, will they bother to launch? Can they make a viable business out
of carriage on D*, E* and FIOS? Or will the HD channel universe be
constrained by what cable can carry? This is something I'd like to
blog about, and any info (or pointer to a source) anyone can give me
would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob Colby
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