FiOS could probably do a couple of 1080p HD channels right now, although a lot of their customers would have to upgrade to their MPEG-4 capable boxes. When the rest of the content providers start distributing HD in 1080p, Verizon would have to start upgrading their systems to offer more QAM channels. For now, however, they have the bandwidth to offer several 1080p HD channels. Someone over on DSL reports figured that Verizon currently had the bandwidth to offer about 150 1080i HD channels. In most markets they are currently offering about 110 1080i MPEG-2 HD channels, so they still have the bandwidth to offer 40 more in 1080i MPEG-2 or 20 more in 1080p MPEG-4. That all changes if everything goes to MPEG-4, but they would have to swap out 1.5+ million set top boxes.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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FiOS could probably do a couple of 1080p HD channels right now, although a lot of their customers would have to upgrade to their MPEG-4 capable boxes. When the rest of the content providers start distributing HD in 1080p, Verizon would have to start upgrading their systems to offer more QAM channels. For now, however, they have the bandwidth to offer several 1080p HD channels. Someone over on DSL reports figured that Verizon currently had the bandwidth to offer about 150 1080i HD channels. In most markets they are currently offering about 110 1080i MPEG-2 HD channels, so they still have the bandwidth to offer 40 more in 1080i MPEG-2 or 20 more in 1080p MPEG-4. That all changes if everything goes to MPEG-4, but they would have to swap out 1.5+ million set top boxes.