Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

["Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

On 1/10/07, Simon Lockhart <simon () slimey org> wrote:
> On Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 09:43:11AM +0000, Michael.Dillon () btradianz com wrote:
> > And it is difficult to plug Internet TV into your existing TV setup.
>
> Can your average person plug a cable / satellite / terrestrial (in the UK,
> the only mainstream option here for self-install is terrestrial)? Power,
> TV, and antenna? Then why can't they plug in Power, TV & phone line? That's
> where IPTV STBs are going...
>
> Simon

Especially as more and more ISPs/telcos hand out WLAN boxen of various
kinds - after all, once you have some sort of Linux (usually)
networked appliance in the user's premises, it's quite simple to
deploy more services (hosted VoIP, IPTV, media centre, connected
storage, maybe SIP/Asterisk..) on top of that.

Slingbox-like features and mobile-world things like UMA are also
pushing us that way.