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HDTV Over IP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the babysteps-towards-broadband-media dept.

gravelpup writes " NASA Watch has this article about a NASA demo of streaming an HDTV feed over a 20Mbps network from D.C. to California. Suddenly, watching NASA TV at home over a dinky DSL connection doesn't seem so cool anymore." For some reason this just makes streaming high quality video over the net seem even further away to me.

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  1. It would stand to reason then... by iforgotmyfirstlogon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... that NTSC over IP isn't all that far off. HDTV has 5 times the information of NTSC, ergo, NTSC over IP should only take up about 5Mb/sec.

    -Freed

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  2. Technology envy by Alien54 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    There is the old adage I remember from retail, given the way people behaved sometimes. Some people would ask around for a system that would not cost much, and not be obsolete for 4 or 5 years.

    The eventual answer was that "If you can buy it, it is obsolete."

    Technology envy strikes again

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