At least the OTA networks have content that is valuable enough to be sent to EVERYBODY at the same time. We can look at them as not just OTA broadcasters but instead as those with content worth also picking up the additional 10-15% of customers not otherwise on some premium provider.
This gives a economy of scale that would also be suitable for utilizing multicasting, non-on-demand TV over the Internet, at least once IPV6 makes proper multicast support mandatory. Of course it remains to be seen if doing this needs Net Neutrality laws or if the difficulty of inserting local commercials or enforcing local-only access will cause this all to be made illegal somehow for network content. But if these things can be gotten around I thing there is a market for (free?) advertising supported mobile content.
Is anybody doing anything with IP Multicast mobile? - Tom Craig Birkmaier wrote:
At 11:23 AM -0800 11/27/07, John Willkie wrote:Makes one wonder just how many TV-like services they will use that spectrum for.Bad news for Bob Miller, I think.I am glad to see the interest from this group in what is happening to the mobile communications industry.I agree with John that TV broadcasters should worry about the mobile Internet and its ability to deliver TV services. Unfortunately, the TV broadcasters really won't about this, just as they do not care about the fact that 90% (perhaps higher) of their viewers utilize a competitors network for the delivery of their broadcast signals. They will simply figure out a way to make the mobile operators pay subscriber fees for the content.Makes one wonder how much money the government could make if they took ALL of the spectrum away from TV broadcasters, while preserving their "right" to negotiate (re)transmission consent. With this spectrum it would be possible to deliver enough bits in every market to make the Internet (both wired and wireless) the preferred way to access TV content.Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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