burlmart wrote:
the bear II wrote:
Your setup works fine for home use but for an RV'er may not work as well. Currently, the WiFi at most RV parks may not support Roku or other streaming devices.
I'm guessing within the next couple of years readily using a streaming device in an RV will be possible as the WiFi technologies improve.
agreed.
i have concluded that the cable tv packages of 100+ channels can be likened to the grounds of a chicken coop, and the dvr's purpose is to capture an occasional valuable corn kernel worth having for use when you decide to watch tv. roku gives an entire field to pick in, and no need to set recorder up.
in a couple years, all homeowners will come to see what the cable companies already know. the elimination of analog bands frees up new space for wired broadband delivery to houses. this will help cable companies to compete w/ cellular broadband delivery from verizon, t-mobile, etc.
i expect to see cox home broadband get a run for their money w/ t-mobile in 2-3 yrs.
but only t-mobile, verizon, etc. can deliver roku to your RV!
Pretty much a "pie in the sky" delusional thought.
Streaming programs (IE video items like Roku) takes huge gobs of "bandwidth".
The problem with cable and even wireless is the available bandwidth goes DOWN the more traffic. In a nutshell the more people you have in a given area streaming huge HD files the SLOWER the data gets FOR ALL PEOPLE.
Cable eliminating "analog services" they have only opened up 6mhz of "space" PER channel removed..
Typically in most cable areas that was only about 20 channels.
That is only 120mhz of supposed "bandwidth", a drop in the bucket compared to say 20,000 customers trying to stream just one streaming channel each.
The point that you (and most people) are missing is removing the open analog AND open QAM (digital channels) allowed the cable cos to crack down on customers over populating there drops with TVs.
Cable co's have gone back to the early days of cable when they had special cable boxes which meant you HAD to pay per TV..
Yep, the cable co's WON the fight, the cable customer LOST..
Yes, sadly now the cable customer has no choice to rent and pay for addition DTAs, rendering the built in ATSC/QAM tuner totally worthless.
The cable co is still sending digital QAM but now the "private" data flag is being sent, this flag tells a QAM tuner to ignore the QAM channels..
The DTAs are addressable and the cable co will only authorize their DTAs (you can't bring your own).
