Re: TV via ADSL?

[Mike]

DayDay wrote:
> With some providers in Europe offering 3.3 Mbps for home ADSL, is
> this getting near the speeds for SD or HD TV over ADSL?

If you compress to mpeg4, it will easily stream over that.
You can even run SD mpeg4 over 1.5Mb Australian ADSL, at a quality
most people would accept. (Present company not included.)

The problem is more with volume caps than with bandwidth.

[Danny Rohr]

"Mike" <mike.n@nospam-westnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> DayDay wrote:
> > With some providers in Europe offering 3.3 Mbps for home ADSL, is
> > this getting near the speeds for SD or HD TV over ADSL?
>
> If you compress to mpeg4, it will easily stream over that.
> You can even run SD mpeg4 over 1.5Mb Australian ADSL, at a quality
> most people would accept. (Present company not included.)

I still realistically think you need more than 1.5Mbits/s. Afterall, most
people are going to want some decent internet speed also. I think you need
2 or 2.5Mbits/s for teh MPEG-4 video.

This kind of technology shoudln't be far away. Its would supprise me if
Telstra's ADSL equipment doesn't do better than 1.5Mbits however.

Danny.

[Mike]

Bob Is Not My Uncle wrote:

> And doing your own mpeg4 encoding from a dvd source at 600kbps (ie .6m)
> is very good indeed.

Whats "very good"? I've seen that done to fit a movie on one CD, but
the quality was more like VHS. Fine for sitcoms, but not for movies.

Did you need to scale down the resolution to get that?
One thing though - animations compress easily. Are you a manga fan? :-)

[Bob Is Not My Uncle]

Well, I dont 'think' , I actually experiment.

And doing your own mpeg4 encoding from a dvd source at 600kbps (ie .6m)
is very good indeed. Now 1.0Mbits is very very good, probably better
than foxtels mpeg2 stuff of sat, even on top qual tvs.
To not interefere with your internet you need some smart routers that
can prioritize the packets.



Danny Rohr wrote:
> "Mike" <mike.n@nospam-westnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:419312a7@quokka.wn.com.au...
>
>
>>DayDay wrote:
>>
>>>With some providers in Europe offering 3.3 Mbps for home ADSL, is
>>>this getting near the speeds for SD or HD TV over ADSL?
>>
>>If you compress to mpeg4, it will easily stream over that.
>>You can even run SD mpeg4 over 1.5Mb Australian ADSL, at a quality
>>most people would accept. (Present company not included.)
>
>
> I still realistically think you need more than 1.5Mbits/s. Afterall, most
> people are going to want some decent internet speed also. I think you need
> 2 or 2.5Mbits/s for teh MPEG-4 video.
>
> This kind of technology shoudln't be far away. Its would supprise me if
> Telstra's ADSL equipment doesn't do better than 1.5Mbits however.
>
> Danny.
>
>
>

[Vema]

ok I might be totally off the subject but I do know that a friend has been
mentioning that he has connected his computer to his austar box and he has
access to all channels he only pays a minimum, what is that all about?
dose anyone know anything about that?

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"Mike" <mike.n@nospam-westnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Bob Is Not My Uncle wrote:
>
>> And doing your own mpeg4 encoding from a dvd source at 600kbps (ie .6m)
>> is very good indeed.
>
> Whats "very good"? I've seen that done to fit a movie on one CD, but
> the quality was more like VHS. Fine for sitcoms, but not for movies.
>
> Did you need to scale down the resolution to get that?
> One thing though - animations compress easily. Are you a manga fan? :-)