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I'm in the same boat as many of you, paying the cable company for internet access and relying on Netflix and Hulu for content (I subscribe to Hulu plus, though
by jasonwocky 15y ago
I'm in the same boat as many of you, paying the cable company for internet access and relying on Netflix and Hulu for content (I subscribe to Hulu plus, though I confess I was largely looking for some way, any way, to give Hulu some of my money for the service they provide me).
My question, though, for others like me...how many of you have more than two adults and/or teenagers in the house? Right now it's just me and my wife and my young daughter. I remember growing up, though...in my family, we had multiple TVs in the house, with everybody often watching something different. Cable TV provides the bandwidth for that, but I was thinking it may be awhile before cable internet provides enough bandwidth for that use case.
Of course, it could be that as this generation of new parents gets used to not having a cable bill, families may grow used to watching TV together or watching it less overall. That might be the greatest contribution that TV-over-Internet provides us, in the long run.
- calloc 15y agoCable Internet already provides more than enough bandwidth. There are been many times where my room mate and I are both streaming content from NetFlix, and our third room mate is watching Hulu in the living room. No issues with lag, or slow downs or anything like that.