Do you have any idea why? And, from my reading of FCC documents a IP Video
delivery service is not bound by the same CATV must carry rules.


Why do you say 500k for a real system? As if it costing less makes it not real?
Or do you mean some industry "we decide this is what/how you will do it" setup?

Mike Hammett wrote:
> Every time this comes up, I say the same thing.  You can't over wireless. 
> The content owners WILL NOT license it for wireless use.  I've tried 
> numerous times.
> 
> Expect to dump about $500k into a real system to do IPTV.
> 
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> Mike Hammett
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> Subject: [WISPA] IPTV -- Anyone doing it?
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>> I have been looking at some IPTV options and basically, there does not 
>> seam to
>> be a whole lot of options. I can A) build my own IP headend B) nada .  I 
>> can not
>> find a single IPTV provider that truly caters to the resident, soho, etc. 
>> There
>> is one that does so for huge cable op's but thats not where I am at, yet 
>> =)
>>
>> I can build my own head end no problem. Licensing is the primary issues 
>> there. I
>> am guessing that is what is stopping the explosion of retail IPTV and 
>> instead
>> pushing the more a la carte IP video streamers like NetFlix, HuLu, et al.
>>
>> So, what options exist for IPTV ?
>>
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