[163450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cb.list6)
Sat Jun 8 12:51:39 2013
In-Reply-To: <201306081008.LAA03811@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 09:51:09 -0700
From: "cb.list6" <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Brandon Butterworth
<brandon@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
>
