TV Vs Internet

[Axxer]

Well yes I suppose that is the correct way to view it. Basically an astronaut who stays in space for a long, long time will miss out on a lot of stuff at home.

[AnyOldName3]

A lot of stuff has been said since this was relevant, but Zee said about PVRs being expensive and needing a subscription. In the UK, as long as you know what you're doing (buy Humax instead of Sky/BT), a PVR is way cheaper than the cheapest equivalent in PC terms (eg a Raspberry Pi and 500GB USB HDD) and you can record 2 HD channels and watch one (3x HD bitrate) whereas with most internet solutions, it's hard to stream one 1080p program at once, and this gives you nothing to watch later.

What will really make internet TV better is if things like BBC iPlayer start streaming full HD with little pre-play-buffering, and remember where you were up to, and hold everything the BBC have broadcast in living memory. You either have to watch stuff way after it's broadcast, or in really low quality, or a massive delay as it downloads (or something along these lines) at the moment. Basically, there's no perfect solution to transfer TV to people's brains yet.

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:Well yes I suppose that is the correct way to view it. Basically an astronaut who stays in space for a long, long time will miss out on a lot of stuff at home.

That's because he's in space. Regardless of how fast time is moving he's going to miss out on a lot of stuff.

To speed up time relative to you (same thing as slowing down time relative to the outside world): Move really close to an object with extremely high gravitational pull and somehow avoid being completely obliterated. Or move backwards or forwards while attached to an object moving at the speed of light somehow.

It sure would help if we had a physicist here to talk about this *stares directly at neobrain*.

[Axxer]

This thread is so off-topic its hilarious...

I need to go though (homework), but I will be looking forward to reading a physicist's explanation *ahem neobrain*

[Zee530]

NV Derails another thread

(09-24-2012, 07:50 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: in PC terms (eg a Raspberry Pi and 500GB USB HDD) and you can record 2 HD channels and watch one (3x HD bitrate) whereas with most internet solutions, it's hard to stream one 1080p program at once, and this gives you nothing to watch later.

I will agree with you on that, its probably the biggest problem out there, alot of sites only make available videos in LQ or SD if you're lucky, i think more sites should try to adopt the HD/SD options so that people can watch in HD or if you have crap internet like me stick to SD. I always wonder why most web players dont use quality switching options like youtube and it seems the video encoders these sites hire to encode the vids for them are just....sigh

(09-24-2012, 07:50 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: What will really make internet TV better is if things like BBC iPlayer start streaming full HD with little pre-play-buffering

True, thats where progressive downloads come into play.

[lamedude]

TV is still needed for live events. 100Mbps to unicast a football game vs 10Tbps to multicast it and probably a Pbps for the Superbowl.

[AnyOldName3]

Petabit/second internet. Now that's something which would help my steam downloads.