‘Market doesn’t need Blu-ray’, says UK Xbox boss

[quzar]

In the US its all about the money, stations would rather milk SD tv for all its worth before rolling out with HD. Just look at Dial Up VS Broadband Internet connections...

um... it's more like the demand doesn't merit the massive undertaking to convert the hardware. You have to remember, most places have had the same phone and cable lines running to them for 20+ years. The people aren't demanding broadband, so there is no impetus to revamp the systems.

Most countries where broadband has taken off to such high extents didn't have the same infastructure that we have in the US to begin with. That's basically the price we pay for having had such a strong economy in the 50s to the early 70s, every place ended up wired for tv and phone. Now we have to be more conservative and it's a problem to go around ripping up all the cable layed then or replacing every relay station at once etc.

[DPyro]

You don't need to rip up cable to get high speed. Where I live we can't get cable internet cause the cabling is so old, and the price to replace it doesn't justify the number of people who would use it (1000+ people in the area). So we get DSL over our old phone lines, works just as good. I can't understand why some places in the US haven't got DSL when a tiny place in Canada does...

[quzar]

You don't need to rip up cable to get high speed. Where I live we can't get cable internet cause the cabling is so old, and the price to replace it doesn't justify the number of people who would use it (1000+ people in the area). So we get DSL over our old phone lines, works just as good. I can't understand why some places in the US haven't got DSL when a tiny place in Canada does...

The same problem occurs with DSL. If the lines aren't good enough, DSL can't be run over them. DSL works by the same basic principle as cable internet, just over a different line. Both work by transmitting the data in a higher range than the standard thing does. When I said rip up cable I meant any sort of cabling.