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Swampfox10mm
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singerdude
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| Yeah, this one I don't understand. If the TV is connected to your home network, on an internet connection you pay for, why would it be a problem? Unless I am missing something here... |
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Swampfox10mm
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:17 am Post subject: |
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I'll bet it has as much to do with KT fearing Samsung controlling the content market as anything. By placing many of these sets in peoples homes, they're creating a controlled delivery environment from which to profit. The chaebols have their fingers into everything, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if KT were using one of its arms to protect another.
You just wait... the next thing that'll be done is people will just run some router set-up to get around the problem, and then KT will respond with bandwidth throttling and/or blocking sites.
I forsee a big mess, and a drawn-out legal battle where the consumer ends up losing. |
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pkang0202
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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I think its similar to Netflix and their beef with Internet service providers.
It would be smart of KT to have a special Add-on service for people with Smart TV's. Maybe like an extra 5,000w a month for unrestricted access. |
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Swampfox10mm
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
I think its similar to Netflix and their beef with Internet service providers.
It would be smart of KT to have a special Add-on service for people with Smart TV's. Maybe like an extra 5,000w a month for unrestricted access. |
And that means we would all be paying for it in the form of a bandwidth cap. I imagine these TV's can be made to work via wifi and a router. If so, then things like ports can be screwed with to get around whatever blocks KT is putting up.
I have a feeling we'll all be paying per bandwidth use, eventually. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
I think its similar to Netflix and their beef with Internet service providers.
It would be smart of KT to have a special Add-on service for people with Smart TV's. Maybe like an extra 5,000w a month for unrestricted access. |
And that means we would all be paying for it in the form of a bandwidth cap. I imagine these TV's can be made to work via wifi and a router. If so, then things like ports can be screwed with to get around whatever blocks KT is putting up.
I have a feeling we'll all be paying per bandwidth use, eventually. |
There are still ways for KT to know. If Samsung SmartTV connects to a specific "server" to download its information then KT could easily block that server.
We kinda do pay for bandwidth now. I pay extra for my KT Premium service (100mbps) which is faster than their normal service (used to be called Megapass lite). |
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UknowsI
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| From what I can understand, it seems like KT are claiming that Smart TV can use as much as 25 Mbit/s (for 3D shows). Even though I agree that they don't have the right to block someone's connection, I can understand their dilemma. I would guess their Internet backbone would crumble completely if significant percentage of the TV viewers started to consume 25 Mbit/s. |
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