[opendtv] Re: YouTube goes live
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:51:14 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>> And radio can also be received through online streams.
>
> Correct. If you have access to the Internet.
Yup, e.g. like you do over your cell phone with Pandora. With 3G, this too can
be mobile. And yet, regular radio broadcasting survives.
> 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.
And yet, there is no Internet-use police to check whether I'm listening to WAMU
online from a PC, from a smartphone or tablet, or over the VHF band. And both
have been doing fine.
> But the vast majority of these receiver ARE NOT being used, and
> they are useless for mobile reception.
First, let's find out just how many OTA antenna are flying off the shelves and
why. Second, you have seen in Doug Lung's report that EVEN the regular ATSC
stream works quite well, even with a short stick of an antenna, on the new
mobile TVs. Maybe not while driving, he didn't go into that, but it appears
that it's not as bad as you have been making it out to be, for the past 15
years or so. For example, at a tailgate party at a game, I bet ATSC could work
just fine.
> But the reality is that broadcasters no longer offer the content
> that most Americans watch;
That's been your "reality" forever, Craig, but maybe it needs to be revised.
Broadcasters can also adapt, given credible data on usage. And broadcasters are
still diddling with their multicast offerings. I know, because I happen to
watch them. If the FCC didn't jump in with their spectrum grab ideas only
months after the transition ended, broadcasters might even have had more
incentive to experiment.
Bert
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