[opendtv] Re: The Many Internet-Video Options for TVs
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:07:14 +0000
Gary Hughes wrote:
> It is true that you cannot access cbs.com from these devices without
> some amount of tinkering (e.g. setting up a playon or plex server).
>
> Personally I think content discovery is more of an issue than content
> availability. I don't ask "can I watch cbs.com", but I do ask "can I
> watch Star Trek Voyager" (for example).
Both search techniques are valid, IMO, and both search techniques are available
on any commodity PC. For instance, I might want to go straight to Macy's to
find something I happen to know they carry, perhaps on sale. It should not be
necessary to search for that item from secondary sources.
So in fact, when I searched for "Star Trek Voyager online streaming," just
happened to use Webcrawler, I got many, many hits, from all sorts of sites that
aren't available to these crippled boxes. I'm not sure why the trade scribes
continue to not ask the obvious questions, even now that presumably they do
know about the Internet (which was not the case in the early days of DTV, even
though they claimed to know!!).
"Net neutrality" includes TV content. If content is made available online, "net
neutrality" should mean that all ISPs will carry it, and that all "connected
devices" that are intelligently designed (to accept the de-jure and de-facto
standards of the day) should be able to receive it.
Bert
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