[opendtv] Re: 060707 Free Friday Fragments (Mark's Monday Memo)

I ran across Motorola's OCAP presentation at last month's SCTE:
http://broadband.motorola.com/noflash/Prep_OCAP_Seminar_Motorola_SCTE_6-22-2006.
 pdf  
Note page 20 shows DCAS and Switched Digital Video won't be added to OCAP until 
2007.
Seems there is an effort to "standardize" IPTV delivery services.
If that means I can go on the Internet and locate the British-Only version of a 
SciFi program and have it downloaded to my HD-DVR, I'm all for it....or HOWDY 
DOODY Ep. 17 (I think I had detention that day).

holl_ands

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Albert Manfredi <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Richard Hollandsworth wrote:

>http://www.cabledatacomnews.com/weekly_analysis/07062006_02.html
>
>OCAP v.1.1 will reportedly add Caller ID display on DTV, Mobile Phone
>cross-links, Multi-Room DVR (networking), IPTV and Switched Digital
>Video (aka switched broadcast) that is needed for greatly expanded HD
>service.

Quoting:

"The proposed new version of the critical OpenCable Application Platform 
(OCAP) middleware specification, known as OCAP 1.1, would incorporate 
IP-based tuning into the OpenCable digital TV sets and set-tops that 
consumer electronics makers are beginning to produce for sale in retail 
stores. With the IP tuner function, the retail-ready sets and set-tops would 
be able to carry both IP video and more conventional MPEG-based TV 
programming."

Never mind that when using a typical cable-style PON architecture, what they 
call "IP tuner function" doesn't buy a whole lot, compared with frequency 
and MPEG-2 TS "tuning." It's all about cachet. Like teenage girl fashion 
magazines.

OTA broadcasters should pick up on this latest fashion statement, and offer 
IP encapsulation for segregating OTA multicasts. The fact that it would 
simply be IP layered over MPEG-2 TS, to do what MPEG-2 TS alone otherwise 
does quite well, should not deter. "C'est la mode," as the French say so 
aptly.

(Not saying that cable *shouldn't* offer IP over MPEG-2 TS, so they can do 
IPTV. Just trying to put the hype in perspective.)

Bert

                
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