BTW, I am not saying that video cannot be transmitted over cooper using Ethernet, but rather uncompressed digital video is, as someone already pointed out, on the order of 3Gbps for 1080p. All of the Ethernet-based video transmission (a la IPtv) is done on the compressed form and isn't uncompressed until it reaches the STB.
I am more inclined to believe that this is nothing more than using the physical material for raw transmission and borrows nothing from data transmission signaling commonly found in data networks.
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BTW, I am not saying that video cannot be transmitted over cooper using Ethernet, but rather uncompressed digital video is, as someone already pointed out, on the order of 3Gbps for 1080p. All of the Ethernet-based video transmission (a la IPtv) is done on the compressed form and isn't uncompressed until it reaches the STB.
I am more inclined to believe that this is nothing more than using the physical material for raw transmission and borrows nothing from data transmission signaling commonly found in data networks.