[opendtv] Re: Streaming protocols
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:27:37 -0400
On Oct 11, 2016, at 7:04 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
News flash Bert. They may not support Flash, but they all run on
industry standards.
That makes about as much sense as saying that a DVB-T TV, sold in the US,
uses "standards." It's irrelevant. They aren't using the standard that's
deployed here.
Talk about ridiculous!
The Internet is now global Bert. One of the important tasks that the little
boxes you love to hate perform is to take video streams from ANYWHERE, and turn
them into rasters that are compatible with TVs that are still stuck in the last
century, using standards like ATSC and DVB-T.
You like to watch international content via WWITV. Much of that content is
incompatible with ATSC, yet you can put it on the screen of your ATSC TV via
your PC with no problem.
The reason this possible is simple. Video does not need regional standards or a
few formats. Video is just a bunch of random rasters that are updated at random
frame rates. The MPEG standards don't care about formats, although they support
many. When you design the devices properly they can accommodate almost
anything.
You just don't get it, Craig. PCs have always been designed to be compatible
with what's already out there. Your limited boxes ARE NOT.
Correct. By design.
You might still be able to run Lotus 123 or Word Perfect on a PC. But those
legacy apps are now irrelevant.
You can sill connect a PC to the Internet with an acoustic modem; other than
faxes, who still uses acoustic modems?
There were MULTIPLE good reasons to drop Flash; and multiple good reasons to
move to the standards created to deliver video properly over the Internet, to a
wide range of devices with different capabilities.
You should be celebrating this diversity, not telling the world that we need to
hang onto a legacy, proprietary, insecure technology that is almost dead.
They are not on purpose, it's no accident. The article should have clued you
in. It's "just software," and yet the limited little boxes don't seem to know?
The limited boxes all support the new industry standards. Your misinformed
belief that they are using proprietary technologies to collude is just
pathetic.
The collusion you see is in reality just business. I'm not saying it does not
exist, but it has NOTHING to do with the technical capabilities of these
devices.
And why are you hung up on Flash? PCs can decode a whole lot more than just
Flash. I thought we already went over that too.
Because Flash is the only example you can provide that mobile and connected TV
devices don't support.
There are sites I use on my Mac that try to get me to use Flash. By simply
redirecting to the mobile version of these sites I can access higher quality
video streams that use industry standards. Hulu runs just fine on iOS devices,
just like Yahoo View, and all of the broadcast network sites - all you need are
the free apps (and now a subscription to Hulu). This does not mean that you can
access the same content across all devices - but that's a business decision.
Regards
Craig
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