Hi there I live up here in Western Canada. We have a choice of a cable company, and IPTV service or regular Satellite.

The company serving IPTV (Telus) has been doing it for 3 years and only has 100k customers, it simply is not taking off due to the degradation of other services (internet).

If IPTV companies want to be truly competitive, they need to drop the contracts and compete with the cable companies on price and choice and not locked in.

IPTV has several drawback I have experienced using the service available to me. Using even VDSL2 I believe it is called I can still only have 2 HD tv’s going at the same time and no more due to bandwidth limitations.

The whole infrastructe I was told needs to be upgraded and that is something like 10 years behind everyone else.

People are just too dubious and hear the horror stories that are out and about and if companies are going to lock you in with terms and conditions it just waives a red flag.

A coaxial cable can carry hundreds of different types of signal and gives less compression giving a better picture.

The whole home PVR is really really limited. Might have a shiny new microsoft media software running on the STB’s but even that is limited to what is already out there. No start at show 5 mins before broadcast and 5 mins after ending? gimmie a break.

To many glitches, it needs to mature, and that is years away.

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