Jake

My parents live in a rural area so of course broadband Internet access isn't available. They do however have satellite TV/Internet. After suffering through a few days of agonizingly slow Internet access during a recent visit I started pondering the following question:

Why is it that a satellite TV provider can push a full 1080P HD video to a TV receiver with no problem however their Internet service isn't capable of keeping up with an over-compressed YouTube video?

I understand the technical issues associated with the latency involved in calling for a web page and uploading content however it's the download aspect to satellite TV/Internet that doesn't seen to add up.

Seems to me that if you have the bandwidth available to "stream" a full 1080P HD video to a TV you certainly should be able to "stream" an over-compressed YouTube video to a computer without buffering. What am I missing here?

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