Re: Cost of UHF TX?

In article <4a02d80c$0$515$5a6aecb4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Lamont <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
SpamTrapSeeSig wrote:

Whilst one cannot hold iPlayer completely responsible, it must be one of
the single biggest bandwidth-consumers on the internet. In the present
climate, the very real costs of this method of distribution can't be
borne by ISPs alone. Their not-forecast costs from this must be huge.

Rubbish. As customers, we pay ISPs to provide bandwidth. It doesn't
matter whether we use that bandwidth for iPlayer or something else.

If ISPs are offering "unlimited" services without considering what they
might be letting themselves in for, that's their funeral.

I don't disagree.

Here there's little choice: fibre-in-the-pavement from Telewest/Virgin (relatively decent bandwidth) or ADSL via BT (highly variable). In the villages it's ADSL or nothing. It doesn't matter who's selling it - the plant locally is BT's.

The sales model the ISPs use probably isn't good, but it has worked fine on a high contention ratio basis and has been priced accordingly, so that occasional high bandwidth use doesn't carry penalties. If something like iPlayer comes along to cause the ratio to drop dramatically, the infrastructure either doesn't cope or new expensive plant is required, for which somebody pays. That's all of us.

Bandwidth costs money, and it's up to those who sell it to do so in a
way that's commercially viable. If they don't they will fall by the
wayside, leaving the market to their more competent competitors.

I quite agree. But is the Internet the future way to distribute commercial TV programmes? If 'yes' then it may end up being too expensive for many users, and the days of having freedom to 'roam' cyberspace will be over. Obviously, much depends on the capital costs, plant longevity and power consumption, but given the complexity compared to traditional broadcasting I can't see it being cost effective.

Anyway, I'm evidently in the minority, so I'll shut up.

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