[citation][nom]shanky887614[/nom]back_by_demand so bassically you want an internet service to replace over the air/satalight tv like sky and cablei think this is a good idea but will make some poeples internete bills go through the roof becasue they won't realise how much they use and people like bt charge you if you go over your allowance if you are not on option 3[/citation]
Maybe, if you look at how internet speeds vs file sizes have rocketed over the last few years it seems like a natural progression. Also, its not like the TV companies aren't already doing it in a similar fashion like the BBC iPlayer or the Sky Player, both allow you to stream the respective TV companies content. Networks are constantly being bolstered to support the inevitable rise in traffic both mobile and ADSL/Cable. BT are spending billions getting fibre optics down around the country and there are plenty of ISPs that have unlimited and dont even hint at a fair usage policy. I currently use O2 on a 20mb service, the exchange is all of 200m from the house so I pretty much get the full whack and regularly get torrent speeds around 2000kbps.
They haven't bothered me once regarding my downloading, despite regularly hitting big DLs like Stargate SG1 at over 70 gig.
It wont happen over night but it will happen and convergence is already underway, Sky offers ADSL and BT offers TV, there are never huge leaps only excruciating increments but in 5 years you will see some people as Sky TV subscribers who dont have a STB anymore and have all their 3D-HD content piped down Sky Broadband.
Bearing in mind that in the UK today there are already some cable suscribers who are using 100 meg braodband, we are not far away. If someone could work it out, just exactly how fast would your home broadband have to be to fluidly stream a full 3D-HD movie, TV show or football match?