The latest cable technologies are on demand - it's why the latest
Comcast upgrade requires a set top box for every TV now for almost all
the channels.  They're using a switching technology so when a user
changes channels it then connects rather than an always-on system for
all channels.

Paul

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:30 PM, r j <ronsmailbox5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So how much bandwidth is taken up by cable sending 1000+ channels witch no
> one watches.
> Why not just connect to a isp server to stream the shows you want to watch?
> (this message transfer speed -5 because there is no corporate code in the
> header packet)
> ,RJ
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