[opendtv] Re: How one couple beat the cable company
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:41:46 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> Cliff has it exactly right. There are many sites well within the
> coverage areas of the big sticks where indoor antennas do not work.
>
> Is there an easy fix? Why YES!
>
> Move to a low power distribution system everywhere with cells
> where the people are.
By far cheaper than that, for FOTA broadcasters who cannot afford hundreds of
transmitters distributed all over the place, would be translators. Just like
every other country that relies on OTA TV has done, for eons. And continues to
do, even in the era of LTE.
> Broadcast LTE can provide excellent coverage in urban areas
> INCLUDING indoor reception.
At a price, which no doubt makes FOTA TV impossible. On the other hand, I get
indoor reception from transmitters that are between 12 and 46 miles distant.
Surely, surely Craig, these distances offer the option for broadcasters to
deploy a much less dense mesh of transmitters than LTE broadcast would demand?
And this at 3.3. b/s/Hz. Oh, did you find out what tower spacing LTE requires,
in broadcast mode, to achieve anything around 3 b/s/Hz??
> Competition?
>
> The guy tied the cord again Bert.
Only because the desperate cable company offered another 24 month sweet deal.
What did he say he would do at the end of that period?
The one thing we can agree on is that the need for broadcast TV, and by that I
mean MPEG-2 **TS** continuous one-to-everyone broadcast, is pretty much gone.
But technically speaking, that's especially true for cabled networks, where
two-way operation is already an option. For non-cabled RF schemes, such as FOTA
TV or DBS, where two-way operation is a lot more infrastructure-intensive, not
so true.
Ironically, OTA TV is showing signs of life extension. Simply because it is the
only scheme that can afford to operate only ad-supported. As long as the
congloms won't allow live streams over the Internet free of subscription, OTA
TV is becoming the only game in town for live programming to cord cutters.
Oh well, Craig. Some people have figured out how to survive without your
"bundle."
Bert
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