[opendtv] Re: Broadcasters Ask Supreme Court to Intervene Over Aereo

  • From: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:13:23 -0400

The Slingbox model is very clearly a personal one: the user's individual Slingbox deliver's one stream to the user.


Aereo's claim is that they use individual antennas for each subscriber. Every engineer I know believes they use an antenna array that splits the signals to all subscribers, making them more like a cable system than like Slingbox.

Unfortunately for the broadcasters, they didn't have any of those engineers testify in the first trial. Once there's a court decision, it's very tough to get appellate courts to consider new basic facts; the appeals process is geared towards errors of legal process.

TTFN,
Mark

On 10/14/2013 10:05 AM, Craig Birkmaier wrote:
On Oct 14, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Dale Kelly <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Retransmission consent should apply?
To date, Slingbox has been able to take signals from the TV in your home and 
send them to you via the Internet.

Personally - if I was interested - the Slingbox approach is a better option 
since it can send any content I receive at home, including the stuff I buy from 
an MVPD. But there is the minor issue with paying the telcos for the bits if I 
am not connected to WiFi…

Regards
Craig
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