Is a satellite system still necessary in new buildings, or is IPTV sufficient?

We are at a similar point and will probably also do without Sat. We watch VoD about 90% of the time. Sky also comes through Telekom, private and public channels anyway.

As long as Telekom and 1und1 operate peering and thus throttle other small providers, this is not an alternative.

What also worries me is what the provider does when you watch a vod film daily and also have 2 children who also load the network. Easily 500GB-1000GB accumulate and then they come up with the stupid idea of throttling contracts again.

With my current cable connection, nothing is throttled. No idea how it is with Telekom. But presumably, there are also corresponding tariffs. But 500Gb certainly add up there.

As long as Telekom and 1und1 operate peering and thus throttle other small providers, this is not an alternative.

What also worries me is what the provider does if you watch a VOD movie daily and then there are 2 children who also load the network. Easily 500GB-1000GB come together and then they come up again with the stupid idea of throttling contracts.

Don’t worry, no one will throttle you because of VOD!

On the topic: We are building this year and I will not provide satellite. LAN everywhere is sufficient. TV will be watched via AppleTV4 and Zattoo. I wouldn’t want to switch HDMI sources anyway. Everything runs on one interface. TV, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Tagesschau etc. Linear TV has lost importance anyway and in 10 years that will be even more pronounced. In 15 years, no one will be able to do anything with satellite (Internet generation).

If in 5 years a retired couple moves into my house, there is Sat2IP. Selfsat dish on the garage, connect to LAN and watch TV anywhere in the house.

Quick update: we are currently 99% leaning towards not installing a SAT system. This will be decided in the next few days, then I will post the result.

In a penalty shootout, SAT is very practical; especially compared to streamed IP TV.

If one were to do only VOD; then IP alone could be used.

But with live broadcasts, SAT is still significantly more stable.