EPiX's Rensing: Bandwidth Not A Concern

Emil Rensing, Chief Digital Officer of EPiX, keynoted at this week's Streaming Media West 2009 event.

While the full coverage of his keynote can be found here, one question asked in the Q&A session stood out:

"How is the bandwidth problem going to be solved," an audience member asked, "since there are threats of throttles and caps by the cable and telecom ISPs?"

"This inflection point we're in means alot of experimentation and change," said Rensing, who dubs EPiX as TV Everywhere, available today. "My baseline belief is that it's a short-term problem, because within the next decade we'll see all content available at all fidelities on all devices."

While this projection has been made by numerous players in the space, it's worth noting due to EPiX lineage (Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM are joint owners of the company) and the fact that it serves Verizon's FiOS and may be doing the same with AT&T's U-Verse in the near term.