[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Sinclair's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 23:30:19 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Bert's concerns about needing interactivity to support on demand
program access are unfounded.
Trust Craig to pipe in with an absurd argument. Craig: you must have
interactivity to control streams on demand, from destination back to source.
That's not debatable.
First, it's unlikely that broadcasters will offer on demand
content via the spectrum - there's not enough bandwidth available
for on demand
All you are saying here is that the propaganda is nonsensical. Whatever aspects
of ATSC 3.0 that support on demand program consumption are not included in the
broadcast standard that we have seen so far, and cannot be supported by a
one-way broadcast medium.
The problem with interactivity is "anticipation."
The problem with on demand is that the station is not clairvoyant.
"Anticipation" is hardly the word. "Foreknowledge" might be more like it. The
station does not know what each individual wants to watch, or when they want to
begin watching. That's why you need interactive control from the viewer. Duh,
right?
No need to belabor the obvious. The article claims that ATSC 3.0 supports
interactivity over the public airwaves. It does not. ATSC 3.0 claims that it
supports on demand TV. Perhaps eventually, over the Internet, or over some
other to-be-invented two-way medium, but not using ATSC 3.0 broadcast standards
we have seen so far.
Bert
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