On 3/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">MacNean Tyrrell</b> <<a href="mailto:dardack@gmail.com">dardack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was curious about this type of thing. I'm in the USA, and Verizon is rolling out FIOS, and i've seen some discussion on this, is FIOS the same type of IPTV, or totally different? I would love to capture directly over the Ethernet. Sidenote, do those streams come in SD, HD, anyone know?
<br clear="all"><span class="sg"></span></blockquote></div><br>The Verizon Fios system is not IPTV. They convert the fiber optic signal to analog basic cable & QAM digital cable at your house and feed it to your TV over coax cable like traditional cable service. This is good and bad. It means you can use all the same hardware that is designed for traditional cable with Fios (
i.e. your TV's internal tuner will stiff work). But their system wont allow direct recording off the network.<br><br>IPTV is capable of both SD and HD streams. My IPTV provider doesn't have HD capabilities yet though. Not too big a deal since I get all the major networks in HD over the air. But I don't get any HD discovery, ESPN, TNT, etc.
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