[opendtv] Re: Anti-stripping
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:44:59 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
they can't even strip out null packets? They should try "full broadcast
choices for cable viewers."
In the right circumstances, stripping is actually fun.
John Willkie
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>From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Oct 9, 2006 6:03 AM
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>Subject: [opendtv] Anti-stripping
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>http://www.tvtechnology.com/dailynews/one.php?id=4298
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>Date posted: 2006-10-06
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>Multicast Must-Carry: The Words Not Heard at MSTV Confab
>
>The language of a new carriage strategy emerged among the many
>discussions at the annual fall MSTV conference Oct. 3. During a panel
>moderated by MSTV chief David Donovan, the concept of multicast
>must-carry was turned on its head by NAB chief David Rehr.
>
>Rehr instead dropped the term "anti-stripping," in reference to the
>bits comprising a digital broadcast signal. He said that
>anti-stripping was among the NAB's priorities for the coming year. He
>never once uttered "multicast must-carry," the assertion that
>must-carry provisions should apply to all of a broadcaster's digital
>programming streams. I.e., the NAB argues that cable operators should
>carry the entire 6 MHz signal occupied by a broadcast signal without
>stripping out any bits. Cable operators beg to differ, and so far,
>the FCC and lawmakers have agreed.
>
>The FCC voted it down last March under the leadership of
>then-Chairman Michael Powell, who said must-carry applied only to the
>"primary video signal." Only Kevin Martin, who was a commissioner at
>the time, dissented in part because he said the public interest
>benefits of multiple DTV programming streams should be considered
>before knocking compulsory cable carriage off the table. Martin tried
>to revive multicast must-carry once the FCC had a full complement of
>commissioners under his chairmanship, but the item was pulled from
>the regular meeting agenda in June.
>
>Interest on Capitol Hill remains tepid.
>
>"I'm not sure if there's a market failure to address," said Barry
>Ohlson, senior legal advisor to Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein.
>
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