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$100 million, ya right. It cost the industry $60 billion (that’s with a 'B') to upgrade to broadband copper, and you think it will only take 100mill to upgrade the networks to fiber, HA!

Fiber will only go to large metropolitan areas, business first then residential. Out lying areas will prob never see fiber due to the cost ($1,000 per mile in the city vs. $10,000 rural). I would expect to see wireless access to the out lying areas, although considerably slower, over fiber or even copper.]]>Nov 6th 2006 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/Nov 6th 2006 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/Nov 6th 2006 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/Nov 6th 2006 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/Nov 6th 2006 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/
DIE CABLE DIE!!]]>Nov 6th 2006 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/ analog > digital either, it comes from the local office in a digital yet still SD source, new cable boxes reflected this although previous digital channels still look better so maybe there is some converting going on - however all previous analog channels have higher resolution + AC3 sound now). Of course HD still looks better, and I found it interesting that recently they removed a digital channel (Sundance West) in order to add a new HD channel (MTV HD) and a new VOD channel (FearNet... which strangely enough is the only VOD channel besides Channel 1 which shows up in the Guide on the channel Sundance West used to exist).

I've been getting getting crazy with digital recording via firewire (in a good way, even have custom scripts setup to capture, crop, resize and encode into xvid for proper archiving) out of my box (the only channels I cannot record via firewire are CBS HD and FOX HD, although I can record them locally to DVR... it doesn't matter if they are playing a football game or showing infomercials though, so it might be an issue on my end) and since I like to archive Adult Swim and documentaries until they come out on DVD it's great having the bump up from analog recording I was dealing with before (I just wish I could freely share my captures, damn you MPAA!). Cable companies may be money grubbing whores but they really know how to work that pipe (OOL is ready to launch a 50mbit/50mbit cable internet plan if they haven't already... they already have 30/5 and some other options but if they manage that much upstream it'd be amazing... they have a smaller service area to focus on so they can do these things easier).

- Tony R.]]>Nov 6th 2006 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/Nov 7th 2006 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/
Also, I thought that the transmission of data (cable modem broadband) was conducted over a modulated analog channel. If this is true, then how would that affect their industry (installed customer base)? Finally, the currently brow-beat telco solution of pushing fiber to within 5000 feet of the home is based on fiber backhauling.

For instance, an Alcatel 7330 DSLAM (SBC, BST, etc.) is connected to a Gigabit Ethernet core by one or more fibers. The new core itself is being based on 10GigE because the 100GigE hasn't been ratified yet. So, how does freeing up sub-Gig bandwidth help CATV 'compete'?]]>Nov 7th 2006 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/Nov 7th 2006 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/
It would allow a cable company to go all digital and convert the analog channels to digital (at a 10:1 gain for the 70+ channels they probably have), without their customers noticing.

As I understand it from reading other sites coverage of this, the issue is that cable MSO's can buy digital STBs for less than this, i.e. $150 or so per household (though that might be per TV). Whereas this will cost $300+. So do you give everybody a new free digital only STB (like the little Morotola DCT 700) for every TV or do you put in a gateway like this. All to get your analog spectrum back so you can either increase the number of channels or have more unicast stuff like VOD or NPVR or whatever.

Deciding which digital channels to send to a neighbourhood based on what is being watched is also being done. It is called Switched Digital Video (SDV), and Time Warner is deploying it quite a lot. The bad news is that since you need a two-way conversation to figure out where a channel you want to watch is, it isn't compatible with CableCard 1.0, which is all there is right now. But it works with any STB you might have. Its a different way of allowing you to increase the number of (theoretical) channels on your system without using more bandwidth.]]>Nov 8th 2006 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-unveils-terapix-cables-secret-weapon/Nov 9th 2006 12:50PM