[IP] Re: Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 Launches, More Speed @ Same Price

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: WJCarpenter <bill-ip@carpenter.org>
Date: October 23, 2008 4:44:23 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:  Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 Launches, More Speed @ Same  
Price


> The most obvious way that the increased bandwidth will be used is
> for the faster downloading of increasingly higher definition TV
> shows and movies, of the sort that cable companies don't tend to
> list in their usage comparison charts that I've seen (usually they
> only equate usage with much more compact and lower visual quality
> [SD] standard definition programming).

To be fair, the Comcast press release (cited earlier) about the coming  
higher speeds specifically did mention HD video download speeds.





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