Black Hole
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What's going to happen if suddenly everyone goes over to Freely instead of their aerial (as our government seem to want)? Where's the Internet bandwidth coming from?
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Owen Smith
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My elderly aunt will have little reason to live if broadcast TV ceases. I'm not exaggerating, she needs help whenever she leaves her apartment. She has no internet and would not be able to handle the inevitable complexity. Even power cycling it when it went down would be a 15 minute phone call to me while she does it and checks the results. This and the switch off of analogue phone lines are being done a decade or two too soon with people left behind.
EEPhil
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Does anyone know if Freely is becoming popular. Is it one of those things that becomes popular by default? When your Freeview device fails you can only buy Freely as a replacement. I've noticed that many new TVs are Freely, although the 70" QLED TV mentioned elsewhere isn't.
Black Hole
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I don't know, but the Freely advertising says "no need for an aerial, just WiFi", which is the same as Sky Glass. All well and good while the numbers are low, but I can't believe there is enough bandwidth to cope with mass adoption. I think the same about cars with radar: fine while there's only a few of them.
And I agree with Owen: a nightmare for the non-technical if anything goes wrong (and that might include us eventually).
And I agree with Owen: a nightmare for the non-technical if anything goes wrong (and that might include us eventually).
gomezz
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Even if push came to shove and I found I needed to buy a Freely TV or device it would need to be connectable to the internet with an ethernet cable. Wi-fi or powerline do not give the rock solid connection needed for heavy duty, high quality video streaming.
Currently all my streaming needs are served by a Chromecast dongle which needed an ethernet adapter adding before it became stable. The latest Chromecast device has ethernet built in so Google now accept that it is needed.
Currently all my streaming needs are served by a Chromecast dongle which needed an ethernet adapter adding before it became stable. The latest Chromecast device has ethernet built in so Google now accept that it is needed.
I think there was a previous discussion about this some time ago. My recollection is that rather than each user being connected to the broadcaster, the content is cached at various hubs and distributed from them. Maybe someone else can confirm.
I think that depends on which version of WiFi you are using. I haven't tried WiFi 6 or 7 but I would expect that they would cope.
prpr
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I think she might expire before it does.
Bandwidth from where to where? I would expect some sort of Anycast type setup, but I don't know. For example, Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS is not just one server in one place. It's distributed.
Absolutely.
Until there is a load of interference. Such as for all those people who have wireless 'security' cameras which suffer when they just get knocked out by the deliberate jammers who want to break in. You cannot beat a cable.
I have three Freely TVs, and none of them are currently connected to an aerial, although they can be.
They are very handy if placed in a room without access to an aerial, and can receive most of the popular TV channels, together with quite a large number of other lesser known internet streamed channels.
To get access to the full range of terrestrial channels, an aerial is required.
I fully agree, all my mission critical systems are connected to the router with CAT6 cables. Less important systems in awkward positions for cables either use power line adapters or WiFi.
Black Hole
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That's as may be, but once people are using on-demand, each individual requires a stream and it can't be multi-dropped any more. So what are they going to do, store the last two weeks of every channel on a local server? I don't think so.
Owen Smith
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We will be laughed at for refusing to get the neural splice for the direct to brain switchover.
Meanwhile I'm currently listening to FM radio.
