[opendtv] Re: The basics of online TV distribution
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 01:34:54 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
We cannot use that spectrum
Sure we can. We all can. If by "use" you mean "abuse," then you similarly
cannot go to a national forest and start cutting down the trees, Craig. If
everyone did that, we wouldn't have any forest left. But you can most certainly
use the TV spectrum for TV. You don't need anyone's permission, and you don't
even owe any subscription fees.
And why does one use get spectrum for next to nothing while another
pays tens of billions to use it?
One provides a news and information service necessary for a democracy, free of
charge (ad supported). While the other charges VERY handsome monthly fees from
every user.
And your point is?
My point is that cable companies get a sweet deal too. They install the
equipment they need pretty much wherever it needs to go, without compensating
people. In fairness, they do try to intrude only on users of the system, when
it comes to plunking down their big cabinets. But more than once, either Cox or
Verizon has had to dig up my yard to get their new or updated cables through.
The last time it was for FiOS. It's not they asked, right? They did it, because
it was convenient for their revenue making scheme.
First, that is also the biggest expense of MVPDs these days, from
what we have read.
Nope. They are just "tax collectors."
Craig, content is the biggest cost for the MVPDs. I repeat: it makes no
difference if it's their own content or someone else's. It's still the biggest
expense they have.
As to whether FOTA is economically viable, neither of us knows,
Craig.
I know.
No, you don't. The TV networks may not be able to fund as lavish productions as
they do now, and as high salaries per episode per actor, without their MVPD
dual revenue streams. That does not mean that the industry would disappear. It
means the industry will readjust. I say "will," because the future is not 100%
of households on legacy MVPDs, certainly, but nor is it 100% of households on
SVOD sites. So, they have to adjust.
Not my solution Bert. It is the business model preferred by
the content owners.
This is funny, how you keep repeating it. The business model I prefer is to
make a couple of million dollars per year, while only working on projects I
enjoy. So once again, that's neither here nor there.
Apparently they only have the rights to deliver content to PCs.
Maybe I should file a net neutrality complaint with the FCC.
Maybe you should, but it wouldn't do much good. Let me repeat: net neutrality
applies to the ISP. It does not apply to the owner of content, and it does not
apply to the CE manufacturer. If the owner of content decides to only stream to
PCs, that's entirely his choice. And equally, if the owner of content decides
to get in bed with, say, Apple, but not to get in bed with Roku, those
limited-use-boxes-born-out-of-collusion would not have any neutrality mandates
placed on them either.
We're lucky to have Title II imposed on the ISPs. Count our blessings.
Meanwhile, there is **NOTHING** preventing CE manufacturers from designing
streaming boxes that are compatible with streams meant for PCs. Nothing. Just
like, the original Surface RT could not receive those streams, while the
original and current Surface Pro can.
Bert
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