[opendtv] Re: Movie Studios See a Threat in Growth of Redbox
- From: Bob Miller <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:56:51 -0400
OTA is basically dead today. The current owners have not had a clue
for the last ten years. If they have one now good for them but I doubt
it.
Sell their spectrum to others who having paid for it will have at
least an idea of how it should be used and will be prodded by the
thought of losing all that sunk capital, the cost of buying it. And if
they fail another will be there to take over the spectrum at some
lower price and another idea until someone gets it right.
At the moment we are just waiting for the fat lady to sing IMO or some
congresscritter to notice that no one is using the OTA TV spectrum.
At the moment LPTV station owners are having their feet held to the
fire without must carry to save them. They truly know the pain. Their
CBA recently closed down.
While in the UK 40% of homes (10.2 million homes) have OTA DTV
attached to their primary household TV. How do you like that number
LPTV station owners? Of that 10.2 million, 9.8 million rely on OTA DTV
solely for their TV. That would be 60 million homes in the US out of a
total of 110 million.
In the UK they are using their OTA DTV spectrum, we are not. Nature
abhors a vacuum. Smart phone data usage is increasing by 300 to 500
percent a year. There is not enough spectrum allocated to handle it
including the recently auctioned 700 MHz spectrum. Do you hear a giant
sucking sound?
LPTV owners are considering using most of their spectrum with cell
companies for data. You know, other than that MPEG2 required SD
program.
Bob Miller
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Manfredi, Albert
E<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bob Miller wrote:
>
>> Or lets not. Why perpetuate a myth? Why not let the spectrum
>> be sold to those who having paid for it would then have the
>> incentive to use it well.
>
> Like what? Like mobile handheld TV from a subscription service? Cell
> companies already offer that, and broadcasters are attempting to see if
> there's any market for FOTA to mobile handheld. Is this a super hot
> market? I don't think so.
>
> Or to expand cell telephony? The cell companies can already do that in
> their allocated and just-widened spectrum, e.g. with much improved 3G
> spectral efficiency (HSPA, HSPA+, etc.), or 4G. And those appliances
> don't particularly like the lower UHF or the VHF bands anyway.
>
> To provide wireless broadband on white spaces? Fine by me, as long as
> this is done intelligently, without the hidden agenda of making OTA TV
> useless.
>
> If saving FOTA TV requires pepetuating the myth of the poor hapless OTA
> user, I'm happy to oblige. Of course, the burden is on broadcasters to
> keep improving their service. Not to regress to "just one SD stream," or
> other such self-destructive ideas which would deservedly kill off OTA
> TV.
>
> Bert
>
>
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