[opendtv] Re: Twang's Tuesday Tribune (Mark's Monday Memo)
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 07:52:44 -0400
At 10:48 AM -0400 5/6/04, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>Not trying to eliminate it, just pointing out that it's a wasteful
>way of using broadcast spectrum. Of course it's *possible*. After
>all, that's how the orignal Ethernet and FDDI networks worked.
>They were all broadcast schemes, where each host saw all frames,
>and discarded all frames except those addressed to it.
Like what we are doing today is not wasteful of the broadcast spectrum?
We waste half the spectrum right off the top because of our
inefficient big stick infrastructure. Then we fill up all of the off
hours with infomercials and other crap.
Somehow I think that an efficient DTV infrastructure might find some
room to send a few targeted messages...
Regards
Craig
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