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I'm going to talk in quite simplistic terms as i'm not massively clued up on how tv broadcasting works.
I've seen numerous articles around about tv broadcasters struggling to fit the increasing resolutions (1080p, 4k, etc) on the bandwidth available? I was thinking the other day, could they not resort to broadcasting SD through the airwaves and then develop a way of streaming the additional information required for HD and above via the internet?
More and more TVs are smart with internet links and the general public are comfortable with their TV being connected in this way. The TV would receive the additional data and, via a timestamp in both the SD airwaves transmission and HD internet transmission, align the two pieces of data appropriately.
Should the internet disconnect or not be strong enough, the TV can resort to the SD broadcast with no buffering.
Possible?
(In before lol april fools)
I've seen numerous articles around about tv broadcasters struggling to fit the increasing resolutions (1080p, 4k, etc) on the bandwidth available? I was thinking the other day, could they not resort to broadcasting SD through the airwaves and then develop a way of streaming the additional information required for HD and above via the internet?
More and more TVs are smart with internet links and the general public are comfortable with their TV being connected in this way. The TV would receive the additional data and, via a timestamp in both the SD airwaves transmission and HD internet transmission, align the two pieces of data appropriately.
Should the internet disconnect or not be strong enough, the TV can resort to the SD broadcast with no buffering.
Possible?
(In before lol april fools)