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OT: how smart cable TV works
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 19:26:05 -0500 (EST)
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From: "Ryan Finnesey" <ryan.finnesey () HarrierInvestments com> I have TWC in NYC. I see now I can restart most of the shows I watch. How is this done?
On digital cable systems, it's because your cable box is now really a GoogleTV/Rokubox like thing that only looks like a "cable converter". You tell it to pause, it allocates a channel for you, and -- courtesy of a Supreme Court decision last year -- turns into a remote node for a massive DVR in the headend. Same way they do all the on-demand stuff. Is it the same MPEG encoding that came out of the station/network's MPEG encoder? Almost certainly not. Is it the same bitrate? Hell^no. Cheers, -- jra
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