[opendtv] Re: FCC CHAIRMAN PROPOSAL TO UNLOCK THE SET-TOP BOX: CREATING CHOICE & INNOVATION
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 08:16:05 -0500
On Feb 9, 2016, at 10:55 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
More than 50 million streaming media players have been sold,
Deliberately crippled to be next to useless. But they are a start. Give
people a box that can stream anything transmitted by TVE, as well as anything
available from OTT sites, educate them that this makes the proprietary STB
unnecessary, and the transition will accelerate even more than it already has.
These boxes can stream anything transmitted by TVE, and almost all OTT sites.
There are some exceptions, like the fact that Amazon Prime will not create an
App for Apple TV, even as they support the iPad and iPhone. Of the fact that
CBS is hopelessly clinging to the past using Flash as the underlying structure
of CBS.com. Apparently CBS WANTS people to use their Apps that do not use
Flash, rather than accessing the CBS and CBSSports websites.
No permissions are needed from anyone. In fact, wouldn't it be nice if the
manufacturers would AVOID collusion?
Permissions ARE needed to access TVE sites, and the OTT sites like Netflix,
Hulu +, and Amazon Prime - the sites that generate the vast majority of OTT web
traffic.
It all depends what he's arguing at the time, it seems. If he is arguing for
retaining the last century cable broadcasts, then he argues that providing
the broadband needed to use streaming, instead of broadcast, will take years
and years.
Yes Bert, live linear TV channels are not going to disappear, no matter how
much you argue they are dying. And yes, it will be a decade or more before
everyone streams all of their TV over the Internet.
This has little to do with the fact that it "could" happen much faster if they
would just listen to YOU, rather than the customers who are paying more than
$100 billion a year for MVPD services.
If one points out that increasing broadband service can be done in a
relatively cheap way, by eliminating the broadcast streams, then he will
claim that there's no need, because there's plenty of broadband capacity
already.
Increasing broadband service is BEING done in a relatively cheap way, simply by
deploying improved networking technologies alongside existing MVPD services.
There is enough broadband capacity for those who want it and are willing to pay
for it.
Which is it, Craig?
It is the reality I have been pointing out continuously. You are a huge fan of
HDTV and OTT streaming, yet you choose not to pay for the broadband service
that will let you stream HDTV quality.
Apparently there is a reason you refuse to take advantage of something you tell
us everyone needs; a service available in your neighborhood from multiple
competitors.
Which is it Bert?
Craig, you go on and on about something totally irrelevant. You are stuck on
whether or not IP front ends should become incorporated in TV sets or not.
Nope, I just told you that they are needed for core functionality, so they can
be part of the Internet of Things. But this does not mean we need to encumber
the display with one manufacturers implementation of a front end to TV
entertainment; an implementation that probably will be outdated before the
owner replaces that display.
People hate STBs, in general, so obviously TV manufacturers will do whatever
people prefer. End this tangential thread, please? It makes no difference to
the main points about standard interfaces.
People hate paying monopoly prices for STBs. People hate the lack of
integration and innovation, and the difficulty in using multiple devices to
access MVPD service, OTT services, and their DVD player.
Standard interfaces have not solved this problem. Using the smart TV features
built into my TV is just as arcane as changing inputs to use my Apple TV or DVD
player.
Correct. It is better to think in terms of what multiple devices
tied together via IP can do today and in the future
I guess Craig likes to tie together an STB to his iPhone, when he wants to
stream something to the iPhone. IP is not for gratuitous proliferation of
intermediate boxes, Craig.
How absurd. My iPhone cannot access the streams that feed my Cox STB, nor do I
physically connect to anything but the charger. It is a modern IP device, and I
have invested in the network infrastructure in my home to use it as such.
If I was willing to pay for the Cox Contour STB it could access the Cox linear
streams and the content recorded on the Contour DVR; this updated STB
transcodes the streams to h.264 and streams them over WiFi in the home.
I choose not to pay for this service because the content owners and MVPD
services have created TV Everywhere to address this opportunity. Thus I can
access the content I am paying for at home via my Cox broadband, at WiFi hot
spots around the country, and via my cellular broadband data service.
I could watch some of my TV via IP, not all.
List what you can't watch, that you couldn't live without, Craig. Many people
have been shaving and cutting, because ultimately, that list wasn't
convincing to them either.
I've already done that Bert. No need to keep repeating myself. People are
growing tired of you tactics.
The TVE options are expanding.
So, like I said up top, the problem is fixing itself, eh Craig?
No Bert. The content owners and MVPDs are responding to the opportunities
enabled by the Internet technologies you love. This is meaningless to you, as
you choose not to pay to play.
But YOU cannot access TVE sites Bert.
And now Craig goes off on another tangent. I don't want TVE, so what's your
point?
Then stop telling the people that sell this stuff, and buy it, how you want
them to do something you do not want.
Regards
Craig
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