[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: FCC Extends Channel-Sharing
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:32:03 -0400
On Mar 27, 2017, at 9:26 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had predicted just such an example of Craig's total cluelessness.
Really?
Like I said, for TV broadcasting, the channel width is not going to make a
big difference. As far as one-way broadcasting goes, creating very wide
channels will only reduce the competition among broadcasters, the ultimate
example of this being MVPDs.
MVPDs have nothing to do with this Bert. We are talking about how existing
stations in a market - including LPTV stations - will need to work together to
operate their transmission resources efficiently with less spectrum.
There is nothing new or revolutionary about this; European broadcasters have
used the spectrum utility model for decades, even playing with SFNs to a
limited extent.
As usual, you completely missed the whole point.
First, broadcasters are about to deploy a completely new standard. That
standard has modes that can make use of wider channels if desired; but this
will impact the design of receivers. You may be right that the benefits of
using wider channels are not significant...
But you are wrong about the issue of competition. Once a market decides to
build a spectrum utility, the opportunity will exist to sell underutilized
bandwidth.
- This may involve selling slices as small as 500 Kbps or 1 Mbps to companies
that want to deliver niche content.
- It may involve selling bandwidth in off-peak periods like overnight to
deliver content to local caches.
- And if SFNs are deployed, it may involve using some of the spectrum available
in a market to deliver content to sub markets; this could be unique sub market
services, or "directed change" services that allow the delivery of different
commercials to each sub market.
Unfortunately you are still stuck in the last century, believing that each
station is competing with the other stations in the market. You still believe
that each station needs all 6 MHz of spectrum all the time to deliver their
primary service, and any sub channels they can create to use the rest of their
bandwidth.
You believe that they want to control their spectrum for competitive reasons,
despite the fact that local stations sell time slots to a variety of local
businesses. For example, a local church may contract with a station to carry
their services on a Sunday morning; with a spectrum utility that church could
just contract with the spectrum utility...
Craig does not seem to get the difference between creating two-way broadband
networks and one-way TV broadcast OTA schemes. You get very minor improvement
in the latter case, and you pay a bigger price by reducing competition.
Reducing competition? If I can maximize the bits that my local spectrum utility
can deliver, the utility can offer services to MORE local programmers, or to
syndicator who want to bypass the existing stations and offer regional/national
content directly in a market.
This "oligopoly has existed for almost a century.
Just a another one of your mantras, Craig. You are your own worst enemy.
Choose competitive solutions.
Great idea Bert.
Which of these examples are more competitive?
A market has 5 stations who determine the content they offer from affiliated
networks and syndicators;
A market sells bits to each existing station for their legacy services and
offers bits to anyone who wants to deliver content in that market?
Regards
Craig
Bert
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