[opendtv] Re: Punching Above Its Weight, Upstart Netflix Pokes at HBO - NYTimes.com

  • From: "Jim Cole" <colejd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:57:02 -0500

Correction......

their internal (not internet) network


 
>>> Yes, Craig, that's exactly what I said. And they most likely have 
>>> the
bandwidth, because they already have their VOD service from servers within
their network.

>See the response to John's message and articles I posted therein. The 
>need
to move VOD to the IP side of the business because they do not have the
bandwidth on the live video side, and they have enhanced capabilities when
they move to IP. But remember, this stuff is still INSIDE their walled
garden.

The need to move VOD to IP was to efficiently truck the assets from the
central VOD farms on their internal (not internet) network. Capacity on the
RF side had nothing to do with it. The video asset it trucked from the VOD
farm (where the assets are stored) to the pumps sites, then to the QAM
modulators. At the QAM mod, the IP is stripped from the MPEG and looks like
another video QAM carrier. The only "VOD" content that is IP to the STB is
anything under the StreamPix menu. 




 
 
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