So: 1) Content streams from Avail (or possibly EchoStar) 2) Independent licensing process 3) Home built headend (though reading back through your previous posts, I get the impression you used one from Avail) 4) Minerva middleware (I understand that to be the best one) 5) Moto STBs
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jayson Baker" <jay...@spectrasurf.com> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 1:09 AM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV -- Anyone doing it? > I cannot comment on the contracts. > > As I have mentioned previously, we bought the aggregated content from > Avail > Media. They can probably help you. > > We did still have direct contracts with the networks though. Ultimately, > they were the ones who agreed to allow us to distribute via wireless. > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:19 PM, RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jayson, >> >> Can you elaborate on the contracts and the system you have in place to >> provide this? >> >> -RickG >> >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Jayson Baker <jay...@spectrasurf.com >> >wrote: >> >> > Actually, you're completely wrong. We got all of our networks to agree >> to >> > allow us to transport it wirelessly. >> > The requirement was that we own the network entirely, from end A to end >> Z, >> > and that we control every part of it. >> > The ones that are concerned about theft (i.e. ESPN/Disney, HBO, etc.) >> > already had encrypted stream anyway. >> > >> > We successfuly transmitted all of our programming over MikroTik >> > wireless >> > links without any problems. Including HD. >> > >> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net >> > >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: <jree...@18-30chat.net> >> > > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:44 AM >> > > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> > > 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. 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