[opendtv] Re: Spectrum is too valuable

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 11:10:58 -0500

On Nov 14, 2015, at 7:34 PM, Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Craig wrote:

“I never said a thing about reaching 10 Gbps because that phase of deployment
is
still years away.”

In short, you did not know what DOCSIS 3.1 was all about, and you found it
impossible to inform yourself before arguing aggressively. Something new? Heh.

Pure bullshit!

I provided real estimates from the same document from which you pulled the long
term theoretical limits. Get over it.

You debunked nothing, since those 2 points still hold. I stated explicitly
what two measures DOCSIS takes to achieve 10 Gb/s, I mentioned 10 Gb/s on
multiple occasions, and your best strategy would have been to inform yourself
before arguing. Especially when I provided the link. What could have been
easier, Craig?

You could have spent your time focusing on the real world instead of promoting
the absurd notion that we should just switch over to DOCSIS 3.1 and turn off
all the existing services that more than 80 million homes are using.

If you are so certain of the viability of your approach, go find some investors
with the capital needed to overbuild a cable system and prove it.

Oh wait...

Google is ALREADY doing this.

And Google tells us that about half of their subscribers - with broadband
speeds measured in HUNDREDS of Mbps - are ALSO taking the same MVPD bundles
offered by competitors.

http://www.ooyala.com/videomind/blog/report-google-fiber-track-50-penetration-kc-market-footprint

Are you connected to multiple MVPDs, Craig?

No. That's absurd. I don't get home phone from multiple providers either...

You are connected to only one. That is your MVPD network. It has a headend,
which controls everything you see (except what is now on the NEUTRAL
broadband pipe).

No. It is one of three facilities based services I can choose from; and I could
subscribe to Sling, if it offered the content I wanted. AT&T has a CO, less
than a half mile from my home, to which I am connected. But I could get phone
service from Cox, or any number of VOIP services via my broadband. Stop with
the gatekeeper crap; it is no longer an accurate or compelling argument.

So you certainly have a single gatekeeper in the old model. Even if you try
to pretend that you are connected to all 3 MVPDs, a comparison with the
virtually unlimited sources of content from the 2-way internet is absurd,
Craig.

There is no reason to subscribe to multiple MVPD services.

And the TV content available from the Internet is FAR from unlimited. I cannot
get most of what I watch from the Internet. That is NOT the fault of your
"gatekeeper" MVPDs. It is the business model that the content oligopoly
REQUIRES.

CBS is a TV network, Craig. Netflix is primarily a content aggregator, and is
now producing a handful of its own shows as well. Maybe eventually Netflix
will produce as much content as CBS. You don’t need to belabor the obvious.
To compare the original content Netflix produces, with what CBS produces, is
silly.

And totally irrelevant. The fact remains that CBS ALSO licenses content from
independent producers and sports leagues, and sells original programming to the
other networks and Netflix via its studio arm.

There is no reason to compare the CBS network with Netflix. They are very
different businesses. There are two things they have in common:
1. Netflix licenses content that originally aired on CBS.
2. Both offer exclusive original programming to attract viewers/subscribers.

“[Streaming from the congloms] was no earlier than 2008,”

Prove it. I don’t believe you.

Already did that.

They had .com sites with promotional clips in 2005. They would not allow any
streaming via a PC until that environment had content protection, first
released in Windows Vista in 2006. But hardware support came later:

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Only in mid-2007 have the first properly HDMI/HDCP-capable video cards finally
started to appear...

Regards
Craig


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