[opendtv] Re: If you can't beat 'em...

Hey, I wasn't trying to propose any really new technology, just listing 
a bunch of stuff that we already know how to do to show what could be 
done (to the folks that aren't doing it).

And what is missing is a partnership with one or more local broadcasters 
to actually do one or more of these options.

BTW, my comment about only one broadcaster was to show the capacity of 
only a single channel, and therefore only one extra tuner.  Obviously 
more would be more.  But it seemed 50 new high quality HR.HDTV movies a 
day on a single channel should already be more than impressive.

- Tom


Kon Wilms wrote:
>>There may be a compromise between live and disk storage.  Content 
>>providers may balk at anything that can sit too long on a drive 
>>somewhere.  But prime-ish content might be available if it only lived 
>>for a day or two.  That could be done with expiration dates but even 
>>better if the keys never lived on the drive at all but instead had to be 
>>broadcast live (every so often) OTA.  And the way to do this all 
>>economically is probably not with a special receiver box but instead as 
>>a special add-on to an otherwise standard OTA PVR box.  The features 
>>just overlap too much to pay for them twice.
> 
> 
> You're bringing up concepts for products that already exist and have
> been deployed for years. Content is already pushed and sits on drives.
> FECM and DRM wrapping is nothing revolutionary, neither is content ageing.
> 
> Please define what you mean by 'addon'.
> 
> 
>>Imagine the daily menu consisted of premium movies mastered in high 
>>quality in AVC or VC1 960x540 at about 3 mbps including audio.  With 
>>care the apparent quality here could match network HD fare but, stealing 
>>15 mbps 20 hours/day, would allow up to 50 different 2 hour movies every 
>>day if they really wanted.  At any given time (except prime time) up to 
>>5 of these would even be playing in real time if anybody cared.  But 
>>they would also live in Tivo land for another day or few.
> 
> 
> Welcome to iBlast.. Cyberstar.. GeoCast.. and countless other trials.
> 
> This is my point about OTA providers not 'getting it'.
> 
> 
>>Or, you could insert the same prime channel network and local 
>>commercials as PVR material played if you wanted advertising supported 
>>content and wanted the advertisers on your side.  After all, this would 
>>now be timely, if not real time, material so time sensitive ad's would 
>>still apply.
> 
> 
> Which would be local content substitution with time offset to correspond
> to that of the current location in the EPG. This also already exists.
>  
> 
>>And all this would be for a single broadcaster.
> 
> 
> Why not make it for all broadcasters? What is the point otherwise of all
> the delivery standards we have for e.g. ATSC.
> 
> Oh wait, they aren't sufficient to roll something like this out. Silly me.
> 
> Cheers
> Kon ;-)
> 
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