Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

Sat Jun 8 17:28:59 UTC 2013

Japan has been doing this exact thing for close to 10 years.. Why is it hard to do? Buffer the video 30 seconds or use a codec that doesn't blow? I use my phone via "4G"and stream media constantly. If you take a look at Charlie Ergen's behavior lately, there won't need to be a lte tv.. Lightsquared is about to be murdered for breaking the Gps and dish will take over as largest provider in the US. Now taking bets.

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-------- Original message --------
From: "cb.list6" <cb.list6 at gmail.com>
Date: 06/08/2013 9:52 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: Brandon Butterworth <brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Brandon Butterworth
<brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>> I was at an incentive auction discussion earlier in the week where it
>> was suggested that the broadcasters see a rosy future with ATSC
>> beaming to mobile, but there is still work to be done.
>
> They might wish, after many years there has been little take up of the
> various systems created to do this (we've spent quite some time working
> on the standards). Nobody wanted to pay for it to be in handsets, other
> features were seen as more important uses of the space/power.
>
> The next try is LTE Broadcast
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMBMS
>

Without going into painful detail on the policy, technology or
economics, i really don't see EMBMS being widely deployed and
successful

Not to say some folks won't try to make pigs fly.  Vendors make a lot
of money at the "pigs flying" BU.

I do imagine the invisible hand of tariffs guiding users to better use
broadcast TV and Radio for live events.

CB

> brandon
>