http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/ Switched Comments for Downloads Will Replace TV Broadcasts by 2012, Says Internet Guru http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/Oct 7th 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/
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I can tell you, first hand, that the penetration of broadband is nowhere near what it needs to be for that to become a reality, and it's not going to get any better. I've been waiting for five years, and still can't get DSL at my house in the center of town. I pay $40 a month for a 128kbps WiMax-like service that's been operating here for ten years. Sprint has no EV-DO here, and AT&T no 3G. And with more and more ISPs adding bandwidth caps that equate to less than 10 hours of HD programming per month, there's no way it can become a reality.]]>Oct 7th 2008 11:54PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/Oct 8th 2008 8:49AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/
This man, when predicting the future demise of TV broadcast, forgot one important thing: HD video quality becoming cheaper and more common place. The majority of consumers are getting bigger and cheaper HD display TVs. Anything that takes more than 30 min to download, cannot offer high quality HD video content without compression artifacts, and costs more than rental discs or free over the air broadcast will NEVER proliferate.... In only 10 years? I certainly hope so....]]>Oct 14th 2008 4:04AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/
2012 is only 4 years away, not 10 years... So this is even more a ridiculous claim....

1080p signals are not 1902x1080 but 1920x1080 pixels. My bad...]]>Oct 14th 2008 4:15AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/downloads-will-replace-tv-broadcasts-by-2012-says-internet-guru/
the networks & studios won't be caught as unaware as the music industry was, so there may be a workable business model in its formative stages- or piracy could take over, we're not far from a leap in bandwidth and hard drive size that will make sending large video files no more difficult than downloading a dozen albums was on napster back in what, 2000?]]>Nov 21st 2008 3:37PM