iBlast

iBlast

iBlast was the brand name for a theoretical bandwidth (7 Mbit/s), one-way digital data transmission technology from a Digital TV station to users that was developed between June 2000 to October 2005.

Advantages:

  1. Low cost, broadband data transmission from TV station to users. This technology can be used for transmitting website / files from Internet.

Disadvantages:

  1. One way data transmission.
  2. Privacy/security.
  3. Lack of 8VSB tuner built into many consumer electronic devices needed to receive the iBlast signal.

In the end, the disadvantages outweighed the advantages and the glut of fiberoptic capacity that ensued following the collapse of the Internet bubble drove the cost of transmission so low that an ancillary service such as this was unnecessary, and the company folded at the end of 2005. The partner television stations as well as over 500 additional television stations not part of the iBlast Network continue to transmit separate digital signals as mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.



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