[opendtv] Re: New transition web site
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:16:58 -0500
On 3/10/07, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But any demand rests upon them also having some desirable content.
Meanwhile the resolution and bit rate requirements are still limited by
mobile using any currently practical technologies. If these new
entrants have rights to higher resolution content they may also want to
peddle the highdef version of them to the cable companies, where bigger
pipes might feed larger home displays.
This goes back to our discussions of future possibly different
acquisition and delivery resolutions.
But just speculating here.
- Tom
Not so limited. I read that some are now saying that the DVB-H like
modulations designed for cell phones may not be the wave of the
future, something we decided when first exposed to DVB-H. DVB-H is not
designed for mobile as much as it was designed to solve a battery life
problem. Our plan never was about cell phones or solving battery
problems but simply ubiquitous reception mobile and fixed of decent
resolution TV.
CDMB-T/H, formerly DMB-T/H or my way DMB-TH is possibly the best for
this. We will see. Bit rates are high even mobile if you build out a
decent network. And if you build out a decent network you will have
the customers to justify it. Sort of a chicken and egg thing.
After one entity does this with enough spectrum, at least 12 MHz IMO,
it will become the norm for DTV IMO. Content is not a problem.
Bob Miller
Bob Miller wrote:
> On 3/10/07, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I won't venture any guesses about must-carry but under the current
>> interpretations of copyright law I would think any newly purchased
>> spectrum also effectively has retrans consent rights. That is, cable or
>> satellite could likely not pirate any signal from those new channels
>> without permission.
>>
>> - Tom
>>
>
> All true but the very existence of these new broadcasters rest on
> their signal being received and it will be, ubiquitously. If you can
> receive the signal with simple antennas in your car you will be able
> to receive it easily in your home. No reason for any cable company to
> rebroadcast such signals.
>
> Bob Miller
>
>>
>> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>> > At 11:04 AM -0500 3/7/07, Bob Miller wrote:
>> >
>> >> You mean that the new owners will not have gotten the spectrum for
>> >> free and therefore cannot use it like broadcasters do and provide free
>> >> OTA programming.
>> >
>> >
>> > No. I mean that they will have a different cost basis for operations -
>> > that they will need to recover the cost of the spectrum IN ADDITION to
>> > the operating and programming costs that broadcasters must recover.
>> >
>> > Furthermore, this spectrum will NOT come with must carry/retransmission
>> > consent rights, which means that the new operators will not have
>> > millions in subscriber fee payments each year to help pay the bills,
>> > UNLESS they charge fees for the services they deliver via this
>> spectrum.
>> >
>> > None of this rules out free services, it just means that the new
>> > spectrum users will operate at a disadvantage relative to the
>> > broadcasters who get the spectrum for free and get retrans fees as
>> well.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Craig
>> >
>> >
>> >
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