Every time I see this bandwidth argument, I wonder what’s the difference between me doing on demand video, or watching what the providers choose to show me over their on air/cable channels through their cable box.
It all gets to my home over the same wires.
I think the real issue is that they’re not happy that I can choose what to watch, rather than what they want to show me, and I don’t have to watch their commercials.
TCP/IP is a very inefficient protocol for transmitting video.