[Turtle]

I'm used to satellite...and my dad was just explaining some of this stuff to me, which is a tad out of my realm...because shows/movies "on demand" are available on cable and not satellite.

He was saying something in the neighborhood (having called fairly high up the service chain) to get an explanation as to why things didn't always work...at least right away.

So, in a given service area, (don't forget, I'm not a techie) there's a "bandwidth" type of thing going on and too many offerings and users for the bandwidth, should everybody want to use it at the same time, which we don't.

Then, when a request is made via your TV and remote (and we have gotten use to instantaneous response times) that selection has been "put away" and is not right there in the instant, so what happens in the moment is nothing or partial. Then there is computerized switching of things and what was requested comes up....and non-techie me is adding, I think an on-off or channel change somewhere may help "reload" the buffer to the new information like hitting "refresh"...but maybe not.

And so, even if this is wrong or only partly right, maybe some techie person will clarify.