<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Christopher X. Candreva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@westnet.com">chris@westnet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I don't think so. Think of two playback units with different sized buffers.<br>
Without sync data they can be at different points in the multicast stream.<br>
The stream starts comming in at the same time, but a system waiting for a<br>
(say) 20 meg buffer to fill will start after one waiting for a 10meg buffer<br>
to fill. Then when the master pauses, will simple tell the others<br>
to pause too ? If the master decides to rewind to hear the last line again,<br>
will the other follow ?<br></blockquote><div><br>I have Charter Cable. When I first hooked up my TV and scanned for QAM channels, I picked up a ton of blank channels. I'd occasionally see if anything was on these channels and eventually realized that these were 'open' channels for On Demand. I couldn't choose what show I was watching, but if somebody else had rented, say, Cars, I could tune in to their session for free. Eventually Charter encrypted these channels, but it was neat at the time.<br>
<br>The reason I'm bringing this up is, when whomever bought this content would pause, rewind or fast forward, I was there with them. I can't say if I ever lost sync with exactly what they were seeing, but I can say that the experience was the equivalent of having my own feed off a splitter behind their STB. So if it's possible over Cable TV Coax, I gotta think there's a relatively easy way (in theory) to do the same with IPTV.<br>
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