On Nov 7, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Given the fact that the FCC claims that 17% of U.S. homes lack access to what
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.
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.
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 doingNo you proved my point. With 500 subscribers per PON the best you could do is
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.
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 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?