[opendtv] Re: 060707 Free Friday Fragments (Mark's Monday Memo)
- From: "Albert Manfredi" <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:24:04 -0400
Richard Hollandsworth wrote:
>http://www.cabledatacomnews.com/weekly_analysis/07062006_02.html
>
>OCAP v.1.1 will reportedly add Caller ID display on DTV, Mobile Phone
>cross-links, Multi-Room DVR (networking), IPTV and Switched Digital
>Video (aka switched broadcast) that is needed for greatly expanded HD
>service.
Quoting:
"The proposed new version of the critical OpenCable Application Platform
(OCAP) middleware specification, known as OCAP 1.1, would incorporate
IP-based tuning into the OpenCable digital TV sets and set-tops that
consumer electronics makers are beginning to produce for sale in retail
stores. With the IP tuner function, the retail-ready sets and set-tops would
be able to carry both IP video and more conventional MPEG-based TV
programming."
Never mind that when using a typical cable-style PON architecture, what they
call "IP tuner function" doesn't buy a whole lot, compared with frequency
and MPEG-2 TS "tuning." It's all about cachet. Like teenage girl fashion
magazines.
OTA broadcasters should pick up on this latest fashion statement, and offer
IP encapsulation for segregating OTA multicasts. The fact that it would
simply be IP layered over MPEG-2 TS, to do what MPEG-2 TS alone otherwise
does quite well, should not deter. "C'est la mode," as the French say so
aptly.
(Not saying that cable *shouldn't* offer IP over MPEG-2 TS, so they can do
IPTV. Just trying to put the hype in perspective.)
Bert
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