[opendtv] Re: Score a savings touchdown with Super Bowl television deals - AOL
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 07:48:58 -0500
On Jan 29, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HDTVs with IP front ends have existed for several years already. Yes, they
tend to be just as artificially and unnecessarily crippled as your
limited-use AppleTV box, but they have existed for quite some time. Didn't
you know? DRM? Done. Guide?. Done. Compression? Done. Signal routing? Done.
Yes, Smart TVs have most of what is needed. But there is no standard yet, so
just saying that they can support "some" IP streams, and they may have the
right codecs is a vast oversimplification of the issues.
There are many implementations, and we really do not know if they all can be
upgraded via a software download to conform to whatever standard may be agreed
to.
But more important, there are tens of millions of NON-smart TVs out there.
Every one of them will require some kind of STB.
What else could I conclude when you wrote:
"Yes, HDMI also conveniently supports any DRM that might be
needed."
HDMI is a uncompressed, sort of "baseband" standard meant only to connect to
displays. Obviously, "any DRM needed" can only refer to gthe display
interface, Craig.
Thus you were completely wrong.
Regards
Craig
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