[opendtv] Re: YouTube goes live
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:14:49 -0400
And radio can also be received through online streams.
Correct. If you have access to the Internet.
A radio broadcaster would tell the FCC that they are making it
possible to access their content via the Internet to extend the reach
of their content to areas NOT COVERED by their RF footprint, and
devices that do not have AM/FM radios built in, like a desktop
computer. But, within that footprint they would use the same argument
being used by TV broadcasters: It is more spectrally efficient to use
the one way radio broadcast link than to have mobile devices using
wireless broadband to access those streams.
TV has always been primarily a FIXED service, which at one time, relied
on spectrum to get signals to fixed locations.
There is also a huge base of TV receivers. Fixed or mobile, it
appears that people are starting to figure out that digital FOTA TV
looks very nice. If that's true, then the reason people are going
this way is to be rid of umbillicals.
But the vast majority of these receiver ARE NOT being used, and they
are useless for mobile reception.
Yes there are a few cord cutters and holdouts like you. But the
reality is that broadcasters no longer offer the content that most
Americans watch; they reach about 40% of homes during prime time and
far less the rest of the day. And 85% of those homes are not using
antennas.
AND, in every market there are only a few channels that represent the
majority of viewing via antenna - the stations that carry the most
watched content from the major broadcast networks. These networks
(at least CBS) have already indicated they plan to continue
broadcasting. It is the smaller non-affiliated broadcasters whoa re
likely to take the spectrum money and run.
And you want to take that away from them, forcing them to stay with
umbillicals.
WRONG.
I want the spectrum that will continue to be used by broadcasters to
be used efficiently.
I want the broadcasters to use an RF infrastructure that is optimized
for mobile devices, not fixed receivers; this will ALSO improve
reception for those who choose to receive broadcast via an antenna
for their fixed receivers.
And I want broadcasters to pay for the use of the spectrum like other
users. If they cannot come up with a business model that can be
competitive with other economic uses, then they should not be using
the spectrum.
> Broadcasters were warned two decades ago that the future would be
mobile.
Mobile TV works too. You cannot keep singing the same tune as in
1999, Craig. Honestly.
ATSC mobile is a non starter.
Most broadcasters are sitting on the sidelines, waiting to see what
the FCC is going to do.
They understand that it is VERY LIKELY that the result will be a new
RF standard (and transmission infrastructure) that will do a far
better job of delivering bits to mobile devices.
Regards
Craig
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