[opendtv] Re: Frames Per Second of 720P

AT&T signed up with Qualcomm but they also took a look at Aloha before
they bought $2.5 billion worth of 700 MHz spectrum from them. Aloha
was pushing a higher resolution mobile, fixed and portable service,
not a cell phone centric service. If that is what caught AT&T's eye
then all bets are off. AT&T paid $92 million for the B block covering
Oklahoma City with 630,000 people. $111 million for the 900,000 people
in Milwaukee. They spent $6.63 Billion in auction 73 on 700 MHz
spectrum. This is broadcast type numbers, this is what TV stations
sans studio might go for.

What if AT&T wants to be a new age broadcaster? One that broadcast
higher resolution TV than that required for cell phones?

Bob Miller

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:08 PM, John Shutt <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Willkie"
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>> If you read the entire report, it mentions that the opportunity is narrow,
>> and details how Qualcomm's MediaFlo isn't entrenched.  How about
>> double-digit MONTHLY disconnect rates?  The report holds to my position,
>> that MediaFlo is a demonstration project, with $326MM in sunk costs, and
>> virtuall no revenues.
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> I did read the report.  The report didn't give a rationale for why the
> opportunity window is narrow.   Qualcomm and Sirius Backseat are already in
> the marketplace, and the other contender, Crown Castle, has bowed out.
> Broadcasters theoretically could take 3 or 4 years before arriving at a
> consensus ATSC M/H standard with little or no adverse market impact.
>
> When that report was written, Crown Castle had not abandoned their DVB-H
> plans, and AT&T was undecided how they would provide handheld video to their
> subscribers.  Now we know that DVB-H in the US is dead, AT&T has signed on
> with Qualcomm, and because of that there is a potential subscriber base of
> 130 million for Qualcomm's MediaFLO.
>
>> And, it only reaches narrow areas, unlike broadcasting reaches hither and
>> yon.  It also might be interesting if M/H reaches areas beyond current
>> service areas, by tuning back the "cliff effect" some.
>
> I, too, am under an NDA, but the only limitations to MediaFLO coverage to
> date has been legacy broadcast operations inband and near band.  Once the
> Analog Cutoff is complete and broadcasters vacate the non-core channels,
> MediaFLO will be ready to light up in most Verizon markets on 18 Feburary
> 2008.
>
> John
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