[opendtv] Re: Sling TV Struggles During Final Four | Multichannel
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:19:25 -0400
On Apr 10, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why? We know it will change in the decades to come. That does not prove
anything.
Sure it does.
Only a fraction of the physical infrastructure needed for massive conversion to
IP streaming of entertainment exists today.
You just posted an EE Times article that state department:
We live in the moment of 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD) TV, with a growing
number of consumers viewing video sent over unreliable and
bandwidth-constrained mobile networks, while CPUs and GPUs inside their
mobile devices come with multiple cores, massively parallel processing
capabilities and a very large cache.
And yet, we all know that no current video codec can comfortably handle 4K
distribution to UHD TV at home, let alone deliver HD video to mobile devices.
We have read many of Junko's
Here's a simple example. When Sling ran into problems, it was because many
people wanted to watch the same content at the same time. One likely problem
they ran into was not enough Sling servers at the edges of some of these ISP
nets. But another way to tackle this particular problem would have been for
the ISP nets to use authenticated IP multicast (there are ways to do this,
and I posted the IETF source some time ago). Either way, these qualify as
teething problems, not anything like "the Internet isn't ready," as you
claim. It doesn't take a decade to set up an ISP net for authenticated
multicast, Craig. No one involved with TV over the Internet is making the
claims you make, Craig. Ever wondered why?
You might well have experienced the same problems, IF you had
chosen to subscribe to Sling to watch the Final Four.
No, Craig. The point is, *if* it was "the Internet" that was overloaded by
Sling, I should have experienced problems regardless. Just like you traffic
jam analogy. Everyone becomes affected. So the fact that I was not
experiencing those problems demonstrates that "the Internet" was not
overloaded. Certain servers, in certain locations, yes.
1. Sling offers a subset of the same live linear TV network
streams as traditional DBS, Cable and Fiber MVPD systems.
Sling does not offer OTA broadcast channels, certainly not live, whereas CBS
All Access does. Are you going to claim that CBS All Access is an MVPD?
2. Sling offers add on mini bundles of additional live linear
networks (i.e. multiple video programs).
Wwitv.com is a portal with loads of live and on demand streams. And Amazon
offers more than just one layer of video streaming authenticated access. I
don't see live streams or different layers of access qualifying as MVPD, any
more than some of these other OTT sites.
3. Sling offers on demand access to libraries of entertainment
content - in this they behave more like other OTT services
Indeed, so drop #3 from your list.
4. CBS All Access is NOT a MVPD service, as it only offers ONE
live linear channel of your local CBS Affiliate, not multiple
channels.
And #4 gets dropped too, since it's not a reason.
Admittedly, some of this is linguistic semantics.
That's the most credible point. MVPDs are different because they act as the
single gatekeeper for all your TV channels. Sling, instead, very much acts as
that additional OTT site you might want, whose ace in the hole happens to be
live sports. Other OTT sites focus on other content, such as movies, TV shows.
Bert
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