Larry Bloomfield wrote:
But it is happening in your lifetime, today. You have the option of taking your home TV experience with you anywhere in the world that has broadband or watching whats on TV anywhere in the world where there is broadband. I sat in Central Park watching Azerbaijan cable on a laptop. Could change channels and it wasn't bad. And that was years ago and the server in my friends apartment there cost a bit. But today you can buy the tools for peanuts.John:
On the legal aspects of what you speak, you are right on target and 1005 correct, but I have to disagree with this whole concept and believe it should be changed. what I'm about to say will be perceived as treason or heresy by many.
I believe this whole concept we now practice and supported by law, detracts from the good old Yankee concept of competition. Why should we promise or guarantee any broadcaster, let alone any business, any market? Households that wishes to look at any program material should be able to do so! You can go to a news stand and buy newspapers, which support themselves just like broadcasters with advertising - local and national. The public and I should be free to choose whatever station they/I wish to watch no matter where it is located, just like I can buy a newspaper from anywhere in the country, let alone anywhere in the world. If the local broadcasters want (my) allegiance then they don't they give me/us something I/we want to see or listen to, just like a local newspaper does? I know I'm tilting windmills and it will probably not happen in my time, but I think it should. :)
Made me queasy even watching it in a small screen. I have flown high over the Empire State Building in a helicopter with no doors while banking so I was looking right down the antenna with only a seat belt holding me in. Didn't bother me bit but any time I experience height from a ground based structure, or in this case just watching someone else do it, it really bothers me. Wonder why that is.
Bob Miller
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