I suggest you refer to a TV guide for Newcastle NSW.
So, if you are wired into the NBN in the "NMewcastle" area, what do you
Umm, not confused between NBN's are we?
failure to differentiate as you pointed out is no surprise
A regular TV connected to a suitable antenna.
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Specifically?
What does the STB do that a computer can't, other than verifying
the
card
is
inserted?
The only possible application is for
people who don't own a computer and want to watch TV. And that
has
nothing
to do with whether it is multicasted.
To quote a wise poster to this newsgroup "At the consumer end,
there
is no practical difference". Who cares if a consumer wants to
watch
live sport on their TV? They should learn to be patient and how
to
navigate the Internet on a computer so they can eventually
download
it
from YouTube. If they don't have a computer they should buy one.
Or, they should pay for the internet connection themselves. I
can't
see why
the taxpayer should spend $50b to subsidise the broadcasting of
live
sports.
You have it backwards. The use of NBN Co's network to broadcast TV
is
likely to subsidise other users.
Rubbish. You don't have to be an Engineer to work out that the use of
point-to-point networks for 1:many content is stupid. 'Stupid'
translates to 'expensive' in the real world.
Eh? How can you convey data from one point to another without a
"point-to-point network".
You use a broadcast network. One signal is received by multiple
recipients.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/80540/broadcast-network
"A broadcast network avoids the complex routing procedures of a switched
network by ensuring that each node's transmissions are received by all
other
nodes in the network. Therefore, a broadcast network has only a single
communications channel. A wired local area network (LAN), for example,
may
be set up as a broadcast network, with one user connected to each node
and
the nodes typically..."
Are you saying that, when the NBN is being used as a broadcast network
by a multicast TV source, NBN Co will have to switch the signal to
each subscriber and block it to those that don't subscribe?
*I* didn't say anything. That is from the Encyclopedia Brittania. If you
still don't know the difference between point-to-point and broadcast
networks, I suggest you Google for yourself at this point.
That is
certainly not how the HFC network works. It would explain why you
believe that "cable" TV over the NBN will not require a set top box.
How does the NBN network differ in this
regard from free-to-air or cable TV? They all require a single media
source and multiple destinations.
A broadcast network only requires a single circuit to reach multiple
recipients.
_Every_ network requires a circuit from the source to each desired
destination. I suppose that a ring topology might be regarded as a
"single circuit" but that is not the network model being implemented
by NBN Co.
FM radio is "broadcast". Walkie Talkie's are "point-to-point".
Walkie-talkies are not point to point they are broadcast as anyone on that
frequency in range can pick up that signal
Normal TV is "broadcast". Fibre is "point-to-point".
Or did you think they broadcast Free to Air TV just for you?
On the contrary. There is a circuit from the transmitter to my TV
aerial and a circuit to every other aerial in range.
One, single circuit for every user. Unlike point-to-point media like
fibre.
It makes no difference that fiber or cable can be used for TV
If you happen to
be confined to a Faraday cage there will be no circuit and you will
not receive FTA TV.
and we can talk about how top posters make little baby jesus cry
Suggested activities for Phil Allison:
You actually sought advice from Phil Allison?! You must be Dimmer than we
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
now take yourself and those limp wrists of yours and find a tall