[opendtv] Re: ITFS

  • From: "Kon Wilms" <konfoo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:14:11 -0700

Wow, blast from the past. When we ran datacasting demos at KLVX for
NAB '00 & '01 (IIRC, years could have been '01 and '02) ;-), they were
talking about replacing ITFS with a datacasting system and hooking in
the rest of the PBS stations in Nevada. Not sure what became of that
idea. Schools seem to be turning off the idea of using datacasting
nowadays though in favor of CDN-based content delivery of QT, Flash
and WM live and VOD content (we get quite a lot of this business at
our CDN). It's cheaper, easier to setup, and you have the benefit of
dropping a WM/QT/Flash server at each site and just configuring it to
sync content from the CDN periodically for a local edge cache.

Cheers
Kon

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:17 AM,  <dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Whatever happened to the ITFS system? If I remember right, the local school
> district was looking at leasing out some of the spectrum for media delivery
> that would be used commercially as well as for instructional television. But
> I don't know who, for what, or if it was even allowed in the end. Is this
> spectrum still being used by school districts around the country?
>
> Dan
>
 
 
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