[opendtv] Re: TV Technology:
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 08:30:59 -0500
On Feb 1, 2017, at 9:36 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Indeed.
Indeed. WiFi is becoming part of the mobile communications landscape. The TREND
is toward the ability to hand-off a communications session across both cellular
and Wi-Fi nodes.
Some of the early solutions are now in general use. Other solutions are still
being tested and will soon be deployed.
A casual user might think that WiFi does all this. In fact, WiFi is linking
the user to non-WiFi infrastructure, including 802.1X authentication servers
(not dedicated to just WiFi), including the Internet, and corporate
firewalls, to make the system work.
Thanks for the "tutorial." Consumers, and businesses really do not care how
this works; but they want the capabilities and the related cost savings by not
relying on the cellular networks when possible.
And how do the networks access TVs that are not connected to
an antenna or MVPD service.
Yes, the networks are using the Internet for on demand access to some
of their shows after they have aired. And they have created Hulu to do
the same, with the addition of the live streams in an announced, but
not yet introduced VMVPD service.
So there you are, you answered your own question. And it's not "some" of
their shows. Between their own sites, Yahoo View, Hulu, CBS All Access, I
don't think there's any content that can't be accessed on the Internet, and
there's a lot of content that cannot be accessed except on the Internet!
Yes I answered my own question, because you seem incapable of answering it. All
the crap you list above is IRRELEVANT to the question I asked. None of these
services provide access to live network streams or their local affiliate
streams...
For FREE.
Possible exception of the linear streams, sure they are. That's why the
affiliates should be finding new critical Internet roles. The linear streams
are now being consumed by a clear minority of TV viewing, Craig. So what does
that tell you about how critical the local affiliates are?
And antennas are being used by a clear minority of TV homes.
What's your point?
The landscape of TV entertainment continues to evolve. Linear TV networks are
going to be reduced in numbers, but that are NOT going away.
Time to get over it Bert, and stop trying to convince us that the Internet will
destroy the oligopolies that control TV content. Truth is that the congloms
are losing their audience, but it has little if anything to do with the
Internet. This trend may accelerate if they continue to oppose the shift in
popular opinion about the relationship between the politicians and media.
But it takes a ton of money and tremendous effort to challenge these entrenched
oligopolies. Even as Netflix and Amazon invest billions in original content,
they are enriching the congloms who control the content creation
infrastructure: talent, sound stages, post-production facilities...
The net result is what we are seeing in many important demographics. People are
starting to watch less TV, despite the "fake news" on ratings propagated by
companies that are PAID to track ratings.
Is watching a show, recorded on a PVR a couple of hours earlier, a "different
service"?
Yup. And irrelevant to this's discussion. To record that show on a DVR you need
to access the live linear service.
Hardly, Craig. It's precisely the same content, viewed much more
conveniently, and often with a very minor delay. I do not consider watching
NCIS from cbs.com to be any different from what I was doing before, time
shifted from the PVR. And yet, the local affiliate is out of that loop now.
That's how I watch all my prime time TV, Craig, and apparently most people do
this too.
Too bad for the broadcast affiliates. But thanks for confirming what I said:
the affiliates are boxed in - they will survive as long as the facilities based
MVPDs survive, as this is a pre-requisite for the retransmission consent TAX.
That people are time shifting the viewing of TV entertainment is to be
expected. As is the fact that a portion of the audience will watch these
programs when they are broadcast.
The real issue is who, and how many people, are watching. The TREND is that the
audience continues to decline.
Also local stations can offer their own content, belonging to
them, online too!
Who's watching?
Those, such as (evidently) yourself, who believe they need the local
affiliate to be online.
I'm not watching; either live or delayed, with few exceptions:
Live sporting events
A local news event
I don't watch the local newscasts, but on occasion I will go to the stations
web site to view a local news story.
That are! You have to rethink how TV content is delivered and consumed these
days, Craig. Same content, but distributed differently and mostly consumed
differently. People prefer convenience, as opposed to doing things the old
way.
People prefer options. The evolution of TV entertainment since the '80s has ALL
been about CHOICE. Initially it was more program diversity. The technology
sands have shifted - choices abound, so NOW the emphasis is the ability to
choose when to watch.
Regards
Craig
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