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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 30 Nov 2007 at 17:22

"BT understandably is running shy of the huge cost of the real solution which is in the physical infrastructure and particularly moving from wire to fibre," he reckons.

"The more I follow this saga over the many years I have now the more I've come to believe the real log jam is with Ofcom, and behind it the government, whose rhetoric does not begin to be matched by real support of the need to rebuild this infrastructure."

The future of TV?

Potentially, but what would we do with those speeds anyway? Well if the broadcasters have anything to do with it, watch endless reruns of "Autumnwatch" and "The 100 Best 100 Best shows". The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have decided what the world needs is another on-demand service, especially given the blistering success of the iPlayer, and they've ganged up to create it. ballam provided the scepticism.

"Let me see. I want to sit down after work and watch a re-run of Morse via my Virgin Media 2Mb/sec connection, but oh dear I've gone over the pathetic 350MB usage cap between 4pm and midnight, and my speed is reduced to 1Mb/sec, meaning the episode won't finish downloading till 3am. Then I find my Linux machine doesn't support the particular flavour of DRM used on the video, so I can't watch it after all unless I dig out that dusty old Windows machine. Guess I'll stick with good old TV after all."

Tune in next week for more of your thoughts.