Internet TV’s Will Be Limited Due To Slow Broadband

Viewers experiences of Internet connected TV’s (widget TV’s) will be limited due to the UK’s slow broadband speeds, according to Jim Wallace, the man in charge of Home Segment Marketing at ARM.

Mr Wallace was particularly concerned about the recent Digital Britain report which laid down objectives for every home in the UK to have a minimum broadband connection speed of 2Mbps – which in his eyes was simply not fast enough.

Mr Wallace spoke out after LG hired ARM to power their internet connected televisions.

He said, “I would like more than 2Mbps, as that rate will limit the experience for watching HD content on the web. This type of speed limits what you can actually do. The Arm technology demands as much as possible. The more speed you can get, the better experience you will have. So, something like 10Mbps would be the ideal speed for these TV’s, but the more the merrier”.

There are many people in and outside the industry who believe that the proposed minimum broadband speed limit of 2Mbps made in the Digital Report is too restricting.

However, in a separate news story, an industry expert has hit out at critics, saying that the UK’s broadband sector is not as poor as people are making out.

Stephen Hearnden, the Director of Telecommunications and Technology at Intellect, states that there are good plans already in place to improve the country’s broadband infrastructure, with the UK being one of only two to three countries who offer a minimum speed of 2Mbps.