[opendtv] Re: Content Distribution Getting Cloudy (DECE UltraViolet)
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:37:30 -0400
At 6:16 PM -0400 9/25/10, Albert Manfredi wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
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.
Netflix and Apple TV also ONLY offer what they have decided to
transmit to their servers, Craig. It's no "huge" difference at all,
except in degree. Obviously choice over Internet services will be
greater, because in essence, the Internet cloud can incorporate the
equivalent of multiple thousands or millions of DVRs like the one
you might have at home.
This is apart from any notions of "channel" or "schedule." That
content arrived to those servers over specific "Internet sessions"
(channels) and at a specific time (schedule).
[OTA multicasts]
Give it up Bert. You are going off the deep end again.
There is tons of content that NEVER makes it to an OTA channel, and
for the major nets. if you miss a first run show it may be months or
a year until it runs again.
The logistics of how content gets to the cloud is completely
irrelevant to this discussion.
It is still syndicated programming that constitutes a
channel that has a schedule.
Oh? So, do you call the Discovery Channel or HBO, on your cable
system, "syndicated programming"?
NO. I call them channels that are filled with content that uns on a schedule.
Do you call live streaming over the Internet "syndicated programming"?
I can be if it was licensed from a syndicator.
These multicasts are independent networks that offer programming
OTA, precisely the same as they do over DBS and precisely the same
as they do when streaming over the Internet.
Yeah. And your point is?
They are still CHANNELS that have SCHEDULES.
And the "brand identification" with the primary stream is typically
nonexistent, as I demonstrated to you wrt ThisTV. If anything, you
identify with a *pipe*, like WDCA-DT or WBFF-DT, not with The CW
Network or Fox.
Just different channels in the same multiplex. If the operator of the
multiplex wants to cross promote they can.
[How programming must be sent to servers in the Internet cloud too.]
You are really digging the hole deeper now Bert. This is nothing
more than the process by which the content is put into the cloud...
Duh. And that's the same "process" that gets content into my PVR at
home. This constant reference to "linear programming" and "TV by
appointment" sounds like someone who just crawled out of a cave
after 30 years.
No Bert. It is NOT the same process.
YOU look at a schedule for a channel and program your PVR to record
it. You are simply letting a machine make the appointment, then
viewing it when you want to.
Enough!
Regards
Craig
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