[opendtv] Re: Ya Think?

I came to roughly the same conclusions as you did when looking at that FCC 
viewgraph presentation I pointed out recently:

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-295259A1.pdf

Seems to me that cable, IPTV, or FiOS are well positioned to do this, in that 
they can do the whole job in house.

On the other hand, DBS and OTA are threatened, for exactly the same reasons. 
Both the DBS and the OTA spectra are being considered for repurposing to 
terrestrial wireless broadband.

It's not mandatory that they do so, but if the cable/FiOS/IPTV walled gardens 
become unwalled broadband IP media, as you suggest, and if they improve their 
core networks as they would have to do when all of their subscribers have 
broadband access, then any TV can be sent over these pipes. And of course, the 
new wireless broadband services woule try to emulate this model.

Add to this that cable companies are going to allow their subscribers access to 
all their TV via the Internet, when not at home, and all the pieces can fit.

But I get a very uneasy feeling when the government lawyers start becoming too 
activist and intrusive. Sort of like promising $100B per year of our money, to 
do things that are, most likely, largely fruitless. In this country, we do not 
elect politicians because we think they are experts. We elect them to represent 
*US*. When they start throwing their weight around as if they know better, 
that's when they should start to worry that they will soon be replaced.

Bert
 
 
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