[opendtv] Re: Twang's Tuesday Tribune (Mark's Monday Memo)
- From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:45:46 -0700
>They did explore a satellite delivered data broadcast service near
the end, but it was not viable as a stand alone product. Integrated
After three days and a fistful of a thread you finally admit!
>with a multi-channel DBS service it might fly...
Well it wasn't, and it isn't, and it failed, so moot point.
>We will find out soon, since both Dish and DirecTV are going to start
delivering data broadcast to their next generation PVR platforms.
Once again, content. If we took your approach where cool technology equals
success, Cyberstar, GeoCast, and iBlast would be around (well some still are
in one form or another).
>We disagree. I never heard this excuse from any of the players. In
fact, just the opposite. It was broadband that brought the Internet
to it's knees, as more and more people tried to suck up the same
bits. This actually PROVED the validity of my concept.
Are you kidding me? Surely you jest. As for everyone wanting the same bits,
Akamai et al solved that one. So that's no longer a valid argument point to
favor datacasting.
As for the same bits, we know for fact that it is porn, followed by spam and
pirated movies/mp3/media via p2p networks. How useful is your datacasting
system here? For porn it would be a killer application (I have yet to find
someone who would front such a delivery system, however) - for the rest it
is pretty much useless (even if legalized, cause those college/school kids
don't have the cash to pay for it either way).
>>Um, your quote listed Electronic Arts. Maybe you need to check what they
>>make.
>Sorry, My quote never mention them or gaming.
Here let me refresh your cache:
---snip
Backhaul.
Read it again:
With headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Geocast Network Systems, Inc. is
building a new national distribution network that leverages digital
broadcast infrastructure to deliver personalized rich-media information and
programming to the PC desktop. Geocast has developed agreements with leaders
in the broadcast, programming and consumer electronics industries. These
partnerships include Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., Electronic Arts,
---snip
>You are incorrect. Many schools use the ITFS spectrum for exactly
this purpose. But the government has been trying to take it back to
meet the high demand for emergency services spectrum.
ITFS is not being used for datacasting.
As for government spectrum - they hardly need more than they have. Emergency
services can and are being deployed over ATSC.
>Semantics. Every NIC has a unique hardware address in the IP reserved
space.
No they do not. MAC addresses are not unique. Fact.
Cheers
Kon
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