I'm Canadian. If I want US TV I'll get a grey market DirectTV dish. Americans can do the same with our dishes.
What I want is to watch foreign TV like European channels (esp. the UK). With the technology available it should be trivial (but perhaps not inexpensive) for my cable company to offer me BBC or ITV (PAL -> MPEG -> NTSC ??). However, here in Canada we have this festering scab called the CRTC that determines what we watch (but that's another rant).
So... if a service like JumpTV supplies foreign TV over the internet it will be a winner, IMO.
I'm on Shaw@home in Western Canada and to a local ISP I get 0.5-1Mbps upload speed. Download speed from the net in general is about 0.5Mbps but from good sites (download.com, sun.com) 2-4Mbps is common.
The thing to remember with @home-using cable companies is that it all depends how they tie to the internet. Many cable companies use the @home "backbone" (10.x.y.z addresses in your traceroutes) which is quite slow. Shaw ties into the Group Telecom (formerly Shaw FibreLink) fibre backbone... wicked-fast.
When my town switched from the @home backbone to the GT backbone data rates shot up and ping times dropped overnight.
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I'm Canadian. If I want US TV I'll get a grey market DirectTV dish. Americans can do the same with our dishes.
What I want is to watch foreign TV like European channels (esp. the UK). With the technology available it should be trivial (but perhaps not inexpensive) for my cable company to offer me BBC or ITV (PAL -> MPEG -> NTSC ??). However, here in Canada we have this festering scab called the CRTC that determines what we watch (but that's another rant).
So... if a service like JumpTV supplies foreign TV over the internet it will be a winner, IMO.
Installing RH while on the bus... that is too cool.
I'm on Shaw@home in Western Canada and to a local ISP I get 0.5-1Mbps upload speed. Download speed from the net in general is about 0.5Mbps but from good sites (download.com, sun.com) 2-4Mbps is common.
The thing to remember with @home-using cable companies is that it all depends how they tie to the internet. Many cable companies use the @home "backbone" (10.x.y.z addresses in your traceroutes) which is quite slow. Shaw ties into the Group Telecom (formerly Shaw FibreLink) fibre backbone... wicked-fast.
When my town switched from the @home backbone to the GT backbone data rates shot up and ping times dropped overnight.
F1_Fan.