[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Netflix Users Watch 10 TV Shows a Week
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 20:00:52 -0500
Craig wrote:
Clearly TV over broadband is a viable alternative for the limited number of
homes that now rely on antennas, although a significant portion of these
homes
may not be able to afford broadband.
Finally something sensible. Yes, a wholesale abolishment of any kind of
broadcasting, and moving to broadband distribution exclusively, would require
first that the lifeline service be updated to broadband, rather than just a
telephone line. This is the extreme scenario, obviously, which is not the best
way of making any transition.
And when you consider the number of homes that get linear TV service from the
MVPDs, it is still not possible to move all TV delivery to the Internet.
That's far simpler. Anyone on cable, just about, can subscribe to broadband.
Most people with DBS subscriptions, I have to believe, already have broadband
service. We've already seen that 70% of homes have broadband, and what these
numbers call "broadband" is much more than what's necessary for TV. So the
transition away from MPEG-2 TS broadcast streams is a lot more feasible than
you like to pretend.
The required infrastructure is not in place and will not be for a number of
years.
More arm-waving BS. We've covered this many times.
Give it up Bert. You are arguing from both sides of your mouth. Both cable
and
broadcast are constrained by legacy technology that is in more than 100
million
homes in the U.S.
Where am I arguing out of both sides of my mouth, Craig? What don't you
understand that gives you that impression? If you give a home, say, 3 or 4
Mb/s, that's plenty adequate for TV streams, even if they won't be true HD. I
showed you the numbers. The cable companies would have little trouble doing
this, and they can put the onus on the subscriber to buy the necessary modem,
if they don't have these deployed yet. (I.e., a modem which may use more 6 MHz
channels for DOCSIS than their proprietary ones may be capable of.) The old
proprietary rental equipment the cable companies laboriously deployed, which
was their own decision to do, if it can't handle the expanded DOCSIS service,
oh well, so sad.
You'll have a few tough cases, mostly rural, where people have no access to
that much bandwidth from a cabled service. But for that, either satellite
broadband or newer WISP services would be the answer. All of this is happening,
Craig. Your "it would take decades" is simply uninformed.
Obviously not standards are equal. The open extensible approach has enabled
you
to watch TV over the Internet. Even you are no longer using that built in
ATSC
tuner that you championed in a former life.
This old mantra again. I not only championed the built-in ATSC tuner, I also
championed built-in Internet reception, when that became a popular option.
Which it has done. Matter of fact, the reason I use a PC is because I got tired
of waiting for these "on the take" connected TV, or connected BluRay, or
streaming boxes, to put out a product that wasn't unnecessarily crippled.
So Craig, you are simply way behind the time.
So your answer is just shut down broadcast TV in the U.S. - obviously there
is
no good reason for ATSC 3.0 or continuing to waste spectrum on FOTA TV...
What has my repeated position on ATSC 3.0 been?
Bert
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