[opendtv] Re: ATSC and Lip Sync

  • From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 00:04:29 -0400

How does ABC operate their master control system?  CBS?  Fox?  ESPN?  MTV?

Yes, it's only the local broadcaster that is stuck with the obsolete linear master control model, while every other network - both cable and broadcast - has moved on to 100% computer generated file distribution to the home -NOT!

Internet television viewing is a non-real time experience, and a niche experience. Broadcast is a mass medium.

Craig, tell me what Apple computer and OS you were using in 1999. Can you use it today to run the latest QuickTime application?

What television were you using in 1999?

'Nuff said.

John

----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>

As Mark points out, it is not the ATSC standard that causes broadcasters to operate their master control systems like they did in the good old days. This is strictly a matter of being comfortable with an existing business model, and force fitting it into the ATSC infrastructure. unfortunately, it is the business model that is dying, not the standard.


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