[opendtv] Re: IEEE Ericsson article on use of LTE for TV

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:08:15 -0500

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

> Can you use multiple ISPs without signing up for their service?

Which brings up the relevant points.

With respect to incompatible devices, imagine if the congloms behaved like 
that. Imagine if watching Disney-owned content required a different device from 
Viacom content, for instance. So should we happily accept this deliberate 
incompatibility from the network service providers?

With respect to "scare RF spectrum," why does the FCC allow the cellcos to 
waste UHF and L Band spectrum as they are? Do you see local OTA broadcasters or 
station groups wasting spectrum by duplicating each other's multicast content, 
with the excuse that the TV sets are incompatible? That would never fly, right? 
Why do these guys get away with it?

And what about DBS? Do we need two redundant services eating up "scarce 
spectrum" in the L Band? Just because the receivers are incompatible?

> Sorry Bert but you analogy sucks. People are buying Apple
> products and using the ecosystem they have created because this
> stuff works, in most cases better than the stuff from competitors.

So in other words, as long as consumers are suckered into paying never-ending 
fees, the technical solution is allowed to be absurd. Instead, if the service 
is as it should be, un-tethered, where each participant plays only his useful 
role and butts out of grabbing money when he's adding no value, then that's 
when the FCC wants to yank away 1/3 or more of their spectrum.

That should be astonishing.

> Thankfully, Microsoft has never exerted any control over their
> platform, and has never been the subject of an anti trust
> investigation...

It's actually laughable for an "Apple cultist" to even mention that. But it 
does kind of go along with the other totally illogical issues I described above.

Tell me this, though. I can buy a Dell PC and I can run Windows, Linux of about 
a zillion flavors, or hell, even DOS from different companies, NO PROBLEM. Can 
I do that with a Mac?

Bert

 
 
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