Why can I watch cable TV 24/7 but streaming video has a cap?
Post date: 2019-01-11 11:37:55
Views: 347
I get TV from the cable company, and I get internet from the same cable company. It's all bits of electronic data that come through a coax cable into a box in my house, then into my screen devices. I can leave the TV on TBS and watch Friends 24/7 for the whole week and nobody cares ... but I can only use X-hundred GB of data before the cable company will cap me for the month, so I can't stream Friends on Netflix 24/7 in the same unrestricted way.
Why? Isn't it all the same electronic stuff coming through the same entry point? Is this just an artificial business constraint that the cable people have put in place to make more money? Or is there something technical that I don't understand that makes the two things not apples-to-apples?