[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Netflix Users Watch 10 TV Shows a Week
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 01:10:16 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
How do we obsolete broadcast TV in the U.S.?
It's trivially easy.
You have completely lost track of the tread.
Hardly. You can stop broadcasting TV in the old-fashioned way, and distribute
the content via IP unicast and multicast, using standards that already exist
and are already deployed, to consumer devices that already exist and are
already deployed. Yes, the more luddite households may not have these in place
yet, but all is available, unwalled, from third party vendors, at affordable
prices, and has been for a good number of years. Didn't you already know this?
On the other hand, when you use your PC to watch TV you are
typically using other standards that are not compatible with
the ATSC tuner in your TV or most cable STBs.
Wow, what a show stopper. I must be a genius. I've been doing this for years,
before Craig informed me that it can't be done.
The global cable industry is not about to obsolete their installed
base of MPEG-2 STBs.
Consumers are already doing this, Craig. Most people do not obsess about what
their cable company might prefer, as you seem to do.
When I asked: "How do we obsolete broadcast TV in the U.S., I was
talking about the installed base of ATSC capable TVs.
I hope that was answered. The installed base of TVs is still used, with either
a box (PC, laptop, streaming box, game console) connected to it, or using the
TV's own built-in IP front end, if so equipped. As a huge number of households
is ALREADY doing, using the broadband connection they already have.
So you are now paying for all of these services?
Have you ever heard of ad-supported TV, Craig? So, add to that list, hulu.com,
cbs.com, abc.com, nbc.com, wwitv.com, and on and on and on.
Bert
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