[opendtv] Re: Content Distribution Getting Cloudy (DECE UltraViolet)
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:38:51 -0400
At 3:48 PM -0500 9/23/10, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
In networks that are purely broadcast protocol (DBS, OTA, early
cable), any storage must be done on the consumer premises. In
networks that offer two-way protocols, the storage can also occur
within the network core, somewhere. You are quibbling over protocol
details, and concluding some metaphysical difference that isn't
there.
It's a huge physical difference Bert. You can only record what is
offered by the CHANNELS you can receive. Services such as Netflix and
Apple TV allow you to search through growing libraries of content
that is available on demand.
Rubbish. That is entirely at the discretion, and the imagination, of
the guy who writes the software for the PVR. There is no reason why
a PVR with n different tuners cannot simultaneously record n
different shows from OTA or cable broadcast streams AUTOMATICALLY,
each one selected to appeal to that user. There is simply no
difference that has anything to do with "channel" here, Craig. You
may have a point that such OTA PVRs are hard to find (except TiVo,
of course), but technically the problem is straightforward. And
technically, PSIP allows any smart software person to recreate a
TiVo experience for OTA stations.
See above. You can only record what is available via the channels you receive.
I'm not arguing that your own PVR system at home can equal the
choice ultimately available over the Internet or over a large MVPD.
I am arguing that what you believe to be a fundamental difference
caused by "channels" or caused by "schedules" is simply not there.
And you are simply wrong. Channels that offer scheduled programming
are fundamentally limited in the choice of what they can offer. Cloud
based services are only limited by the content they can license,
which is growing rapidly.
Wrong, Craig. You missed it completely. ThisTV, the Retro TV Network
(RTN), France 24, Universal Sports, Al Jazeera, and a bunch of other
similar examples, are carried 24/7. This IS NOT syndicated
programming carried during non-prime time over the same channel as
ABC or Fox. This programming is completely unrelated to other
programming carried by those OTA stations, at the same time as their
ABC or NBC or CBS or CW or whatever "main stream." These are all
multicasts, completely unrelated to other multicasts in that RF
channel. And they happen to be "networks" in their own right. Just
like cable or DBS. The OTA broadcaster decides what other TV
"networks" it will support over their RF channel(s), just like a DBS
provider does, but on a smaller scale.
It is still syndicated programming that constitutes a channel that
has a schedule.
Nothing interesting here, you are still limited by their program
choice and schedule.
This point was related to promotional efforts within a channel. Each
of the examples you cite does promote other programs within their
channel.
Regards
Craig
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