That agrees with most of the anecdotal information that I have on it,
which is why I am very interested if Peter has information on someone
doing it or, if like the rest of the world outside the digital rights
holders, he see the immense value of being able to do so for your
customer base.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
David Hughes wrote:
One of the major cable systems just lost that fight. The studios and
networks filed suit and won on the issue of copyright infringmement.
Dave
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV
Peter, do you have much information on Network DVR (like the term). I
would think that if you could get DR owners to agreee to Network DVR it
would just be a small jump to real VOD. But then again, I still
struggle with the concept of them bitching about people copying stuff
that they broadcast freely over the air...
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
Peter R. wrote:
Remember that like the term wireless, iptv has way too many meanings.
IPTV to the telcos is TV to the cablecos.
By saying IPTV, they figure they get around a lot of stuff and make it
sound better than broadcast TV.
Broadcast TV isn't much of a bandwidth problem - they do it fine today.
TV over the internet will take time since most people don't want to
watch TV on a laptop or PC.
Until the Converged Living Room becomes mainstream, bandwidth won't be
a huge problem.
VOD (video on demand) is being confused with Network DVR.
Instead of home DVR, it will be at the NOC.
Maybe the way hotel on-demand is.
That's what the content companies want.
We'll see. Even DISH promises Caller ID on the TV screen, but that
isn't IPTV.
Just some thoughts this morning.
Peter
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