[opendtv] Re: News: LTE Tempts With Advanced Services
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:59:13 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> With mobile devices the cost for bits is the real issue, and time to
> watch a close second. Short programs - like the Festival video - are
> what many people are watching on smart phones. But even here, it is
> more likely that the user will try to use a WiFi networks to avoid
> burning up wireless bits.
Yup. Either way, though, at most the complaint about using 3G/4G is based on
cost with the current data plans. It's absolutely NOT a technical issue that
MUST be solved with broadcasters dismantling the ATSC sticks are replacing
these with dense mesh LTE networks.
> What drain is there on the battery when it is plugged into a charger
> and downloading bits you have subscribed to overnight?
You mean, at home, where it's no problem to download this stuff from the
Internet (or from ATSC)? No problem!! No need for any new LTE infrastructure.
The easiest is, plug your smart phone into your broadband link, and download
whatever you want, if you must have it on local storage. You know, like
podcasts. Big deal.
In fact in this home overnight download scenario, even ATSC works fine.
> So in the end, you agree...
>
> ;-)
>
> It's going to happen one way or the other. The only question is whether
> broadcasters wake up and smell the opportunity, or ride down the ship
> with only the tips of a few big sticks remaining above an ocean of bits
> controlled by others.
I'm just laying out the way it's gonna happen. It is now technically feasible
for TV to be offered over the Internet, both the wired and wireless options.
Both of these networks already exist, and broadcasters and TV networks are
already using them.
If OTA broadcasters want to switch over to unicast, or to IP multicast for
those "live" events, they can already do so, by working with the existing ISPs
and wireless ISPs. IP multicast remains pretty much an ISP-dependent thing.
Individual ISP networks decide whether to do this or not.
If broadcasters want to create their own 2-way LTE spectrum utility, they will
be encountering the same issues, and the same costs, as the existing wireless
ISPs.
If broadcasters come to depend entirely on this wired and wireless 2-way
infrastructure, whether it's their own spectrum utility or whether it's the
telco nets, then I'm quite positive that the raison d'etre for most OTA
broadcasters will disappear.
Bert
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