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Your cable line, by contrast, has enough data-carrying capacity--or bandwidth--to deliver 60 or 70 channels of live video the instant you turn on the tube. It is, in high-tech parlance, a very fat "pipe"--some 300 times as fat as "twisted pair" copper phone lines. What if, the cable industry breathlessly asks, some of that bandwidth could be diverted to the Internet? How might entertainment and commerce--not to mention the industry's bottom line--be transformed...
...Microsoft spokesman would not comment on any negotiations. For Gates, says Elmer-DeWitt, such a deal would make sense in the long term. "A purchase of part of NBC would offer Microsoft a big boost of content for its Microsoft network, not now, but for later on, when bandwidth has expanded to deliver full-motion video online. His strategy is always to line up proprietary content, and either keep that content within his system or make it open and charge a fee for every access...
...years in prison." The measure in effect would take many of the standards of broadcasting and apply them to the Internet. But TIME's Joshua Quittner says broadcast rules don't mesh with the online world. "Broadcast standards are there because there is a limited bandwidth. Only a few people could use it, and because of that they have a responsibility to the public. The net is unlimited bandwith -- anybody can access it -- and this measure would limit free speech...
...these trials is to build what engineers call a switched, broadband network. From the consumers' point of view, this is basically a TV set connected to something that works like the phone system. The wires in this network have to be fat enough (in terms of information capacity, or bandwidth) to carry TV signals. The network must also have switches and software flexible enough to allow movies to be shuttled back and forth without a break in the action, even if thousands of viewers want to see them at different times. And it must have screens sharp enough to display...
...what went wrong? It wasn't necessarily all-sports radio, although historians may look back and point to the lower bandwidth as the equivalent of Nero and his fiddle. Maybe it was the arrogance of moguls who grounded their sports and real estate empires on such ephemera as mild weather and the continued employment of their season-ticket holders. Who knows. Should O'Malley have predicted earthquake, fire, Rodney King and plant closings? Should he have just left Chavez Ravine to those pesky natives? Could he have guessed that by 1994 it would be virtually impossible for an Angeleno...