[Heavyrunner]

5G will be how you finally cut the cord.

Gigabit speeds even in rural areas by all of the cellular companies will force cable to either compete or fail.

I am currently using a service called Layer 3 TV. It’s like having satellite or cable, with real time channels, but it’s delivered entirely over the internet.

I see a huge future for internet channel streaming where customers can pay a-la-carte for the channels they want and simply not pay for the channels they don’t.

[kalee]

Never heard of this, will look into it.

[garyb]

Layer-3 is a service of T-mobile. From what I was reading it is not yet available via cellular wireless (yet?)

It uses HEVC (High Efficiency Video Codec) most other internet video services are still using mpeg-4 (H.265)

Broadcast television using the ATSC-1.0 standard is mpeg-2.

Typically an HD signal on broadcast is about 10mpbs, which is roughly equivalent to 5Mbps on mpeg-4 and roughly equivalent to 2.5 Mbps on HEVC.

The next-gen TV broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0, will use HEVC video codec.

[deadrock]

SlingTV is similar. And it is an app on the ROKU and many other devices.