[opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test
- From: "John Willkie" <jmwillkie@xxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:14:36 -0700
People want to provide services that they can profit from. Please explain
the "business model" for TV on a DVD player, pda, pocket pc or portable TV
set. If we went full bore on such a service NOW, would there be a 2%
penetration rate in, say, North America before 2025?
Note: most of these devices that you mention are the domain of kids. How
will broadcasters get money from those kids? Is a cell phone on a bus a
better environment (set & setting) for a Cisco commercial than a sedate
suburban home? If not (and that's the case, amigo) then you have to figure
out how to PAY for the content being extended.
MS recently paid $40 million to show baseball games on MSN. You literally
need somebody LIKE THAT to pay broadcasters something LIKE THAT. Just to
try it out. Or, develop your own compelling content from scratch, which
will be more expensive (many failures in TV shows).
John Willkie
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[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Miller
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:16 PM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test
It is not video on a cell phone display, it is video on whatever the
user wants it on, cell phone, PDA, pocket PC, DVD player, game machine,
laptop or portable TV set and on any other device you want including in
your car, on your boat, the bus and the train.
Of course all this is nonsense the only thing we need is HDTV in the
living room. Who could possible want anything else?
Bob Miller
John Golitsis wrote:
>If this is what you want, then maybe it's time to re-visit the CEA's Mobile
>MultiMedia Broadcast Standard proposal?
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>Personally, video on a cell phone display is far removed from what I
consider
>"Digital Television", but to each their own.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
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>>However, if the popularity of mobile phones with cameras continues to
>>explode, then it would be the natural platform for any future "portable"
>>television screen. The DVB-H standard that is being proposed is aimed at
>>precisely that market, allowing for not only dedicated SFN's but also
>>allowing one's DVB-T broadcast to be modified slightly to include data for
>>the handhelds without breaking existing STBs. Obviously something that
the
>>ATSC standard could never duplicate.
>>
>>Once again, Europe is ahead in the Digital Television wars.
>>
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