A couple racks of equipment to provide a couple hundred channels and enough VoD just takes money.
Usually when you want one channel from a content provider, they make you offer them all. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:50 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV -- Anyone doing it? > 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. >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:44 AM >> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: [WISPA] IPTV -- Anyone doing it? >> >>> 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 ? >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
