[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Smart TVs Nudging Roku, Chromecast Aside
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 23:55:46 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
That's obviously doable with ATSC 1.0, but I don't even see why
bother.
Why bother?
Because broadcasters are BROADCASTERS, not OTT services.
Legacy thinking, stuck in the mud. Broadcasters are the local entity, charged
with delivering TV content, owned primarily by the main TV networks, to
households in local markets. In ancient times, the only practical way to
accomplish this feat was "broadcast." Meaning unaddressed delivery to all. The
only filtering was done by the receiver, and all available content was always
banging at the door of each receiver. That is no longer the case. The delivery
network can now route only the content requested by the receiver, to that
receiver. A more efficient way to load the delivery network, but at the cost of
needing a routing infrastructure.
It is unlikely that they will be ALLOWED to deliver broadcast network
content OTT,
Not a bit unlikely. The content owners know how the Internet has to be used, to
be effective, and are already dealing with third parties, to help in the
Internet delivery process. It's a matter of the broadcast companies, i.e.
stations and station groups, filling a need that **still needs to be filled**,
toward the edges of broadband networks, to scale up the OTT delivery of TV.
This is necessary, as millions of more people start using Internet streaming
for their TV fix.
Craig, you are still stuck thinking in legacy terms, which optimized the
profits earned from a 40 year old system of TV content delivery. Your "retrans
consent" insistence sounds really old fashioned, and at the very least, you
might explore how it would translate to this new, emerging reality. The
old-fashioned broadcast tower does NOT need to be part of that equation. Its
use will diminish in due course - just look again at the title of the article
we're supposed to be responding to, to understand why.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/17/15327840/netflix-earnings-report-q1-2017-subscribers-quarterly-release
"We believe VMVPDs will likely be more directly competitive to existing MVPD
services since they offer a subset of the same channels at $30-$60 per month,
and may appeal to a segment of the population that doesn't subscribe to a pay
TV bundle. But we don't think it will have much of an impact on us as Netflix
is largely complementary to pay TV packages."
These are mere speculations of people using legacy solutions now. Point being,
VMVPDs are a hail Mary throwback to a legacy optimized solution, which had to
live within the constraints of legacy program delivery technologies. And even
there, NO BROADCST TOWERS NECESSARY. But many more flexible options are
available now, to deliver content tailored to what consumers really want, and
these reborn broadcast companies could play a significant role.
So the question of whether broadcasters should migrate to ATSC 3.0,
update the upper layers of the ATSC 1.0 standard, or DO NOTHING,
I say, do nothing with THAT aspect. Just keep THAT broadcast available, as long
as it is being used in significant numbers. But there's plenty other, new work,
that needs to be done. H.264 compression in the broadcast?? Whatever! Leapfrog
that and got to H.265, if you're so concerned. I don't understand your
fascination with H.264.
They need the contractual rights
You saw how Comcast is working hard to get those rights, and has succeeded to
some degree already, did you not? I even pointed it out for you. The truth is,
content owners are far from stupid. They negotiate rights that make sense today
and tomorrow, they don't stay stuck in the mud of 1948, or even 1978. What
Comcast can do, the station groups should also be able to do. New game in town,
Craig. New agreements, new rules.
Bert
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