Back in my country (France) IPTV is old news, many satellite channels are now broadcasted over the Internet using a special box (interestingly, Orange is part of the Microsoft presentation). In my old town, DSL speed is very low (MUCH lower than what you can get in Paris which is usually around 18-20 sometime even higher mbps). At 'low' speed, (2mbps) TV is very choppy. I suspect that in a country like the US, only large cities capable of getting very high speed internet will be able to get IPTV. And even so, the phone companies will have to upgrade their system to a much higher speed than it is right now. So far, IPTV make sense only in dense populated area where download speed are significant... For the price, it will also be interesting to check this out. 20 mbps download cost 30 euros in some case in France. for 30 Euro ... Cox communication offers only 3 mbps...
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Back in my country (France) IPTV is old news, many satellite channels are now broadcasted over the Internet using a special box (interestingly, Orange is part of the Microsoft presentation). In my old town, DSL speed is very low (MUCH lower than what you can get in Paris which is usually around 18-20 sometime even higher mbps). At 'low' speed, (2mbps) TV is very choppy. I suspect that in a country like the US, only large cities capable of getting very high speed internet will be able to get IPTV. And even so, the phone companies will have to upgrade their system to a much higher speed than it is right now. So far, IPTV make sense only in dense populated area where download speed are significant...
For the price, it will also be interesting to check this out. 20 mbps download cost 30 euros in some case in France. for 30 Euro ... Cox communication offers only 3 mbps...