[opendtv] Re: Study Shows IPTV Gaining Ground
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:40:32 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> There is no misuse of the Internet here. The abuse is the current medium
> of TV that is controlled by a handful of companies propped by politicians
> at all levels of government.
So, you would feel it perfectly okay that your PC vendor would collude with
certain web sites, so that your PC would only have access to those sites?
There is no reason why a TV vendor should have to be in collusion with Google
or anyone else. If they are worried about providing conditional access,
Internet Protocols already have a standard solution. The user, the owner of the
equipment, buys a time-limited PKI certificate. You can have any number of
these, for any number of sites. Just take a look at your web browser now, and
see how many certificates you have installed. No reason why a TV cannot do
exactly the same thing.
> For the next few years nobody is going to solve this puzzle;
The puzzle is easily solved, and Sony did so in its Vaio STB already. These
supposedly "Internet-connected" TVs are not going to flourish as long as they
try to wall up the Internet. The vendors can differentiate themselves on how
intuitive and simple they can make the user interface for this TV over Internet
service.
Bert
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