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- From: keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Keith Hawkins)
- Subject: Re: The death of the Video Store?
- Reply-To: keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Keith Hawkins)
- Organization: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:41:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.204149.7608@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <26177@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave
- Bakken) writes:
-
- {some stuff deleted}
-
- |> >
- |> >Technology has been developed (by my company, but not by me :-( )
- |> that
- |> >allows a video channel to be delivered to a home via the copper
- |> wiring
- |> >that is already there. They don't have to have fiber optics all the
- |> way
- |> >to the home.
- |>
- |> Yes, I've read this in the last week, and it is fascinating. But
- |> I've also read that live events like sports won't be able to be
- |> offered in real time, because of the heavy compression that the
- |> pictures need to undergo. (I suppose that we may have fast enough
- |> computers soon, but when they will be fast enough and cheap enough
- |> for anything but the largest sporting events---which would be
- |> covered by sattelite broadcasts anyway---remains to be seen.)
- |>
- |> It is also not clear how much, if any, this development will help
- |> speed up telecommuting bandwidth to the home, like fiber optics
- |> greatly would. In fact, if it slows down fiber installation, then
- |> this new copper-wire video service will probably hurt the pace of
- |> telecommuting.
- |> --
-
- Fiber optics is the way of the future, regardless of any new techniques
- or technologies which would bring new capabilities to exisiting media.
- The transition from copper to fiber is inevitable, but not
- instantaneous.
- What technologies such as the one described above provide is
- transitional
- capabilities which allow new capabilities to be delivered via old
- media. Eventually, these services and even better ones will be
- made available on fiber optic media. These transitional technologies,
- I believe, would if anything hasten the introduction of fiber optics.
- The transitional capabilties will make new services available to
- consumers
- on a wide-scale because they utilize the exisiting infastructure,
- rather
- than having to wait for the new infrastructure to be deployed.
- These capabilties will give consumers a taste of what
- is to come and help answer the question: "Why do I, an average-Joe,
- need fiber optics?" Once the consumers have been given a taste of
- what is possible via fiber optics, they will (hopefully) crave for
- more.
-
- This is just my two-cents worth.
- -Keith
-
- P.S. I may work for Bellcore, but I do not speak for Bellcore and
- Bellcore doesn't speak for me.
-
-