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With the better Zenith receivers being praised today broadcasters MUST
be taking note of happenings in the UK also today.
First broadcasters have a business model now in the USDTV and Emmis
ventures that is complemented by a better receiver that will let the
USDTV model expand beyond cities in mountain valleys where most truck
rolls to check reception at EACH new customer at least yield new
customers a high percentage of the time.
Next broadcasters watching the latest Hearings in DC have to be relieved
and believe that Congress is not going to come down on them like a ton
of bricks if they don't hue to an HDTV uber alles business plan.
Third the incredible successful SD ventures like the Freeview model in
the UK and Berlin have by now gotten their attention. Freeview boxes
that set a record for the Christmas quarter last year matched that
record in the normally slowest first quarter at another 500,000 boxes.
But what has to have broadcasters saluting today is the affect that the
ultra successful Freeview has had on the TV market in the UK.
Freeview has forced Murdock's Sky satellite venture to offer 200 free
satellite channels in an effort to compete. All a customer has to do is
buy $181 receiver and install.
http
/www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds14674.html
With HDTV not far behind
http/www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds14675.html
Now broadcasters who for the first time in 50 years see a way out from
under their cable landlords and they have something to compare to in the
UK. If the broadcasters can put together enough spectrum in any given
market and deliver enough channels of programming and better yet maybe a
combination of free and subscription based channels they could compete
with cable and satellite. They could withhold programming instead of
selling cheap or demanding must carry.
With enough key programming removed from cable or satellite in any
market how would they survive? 20 6 MHz channels in a major market, each
doing ONE MPEG2 SD program and the rest, 15 Mbps, of SD, HD and ED
programs some free and some in a subscription service using MPEG4, VP6
or WM9. Statistically multiplexed maybe they could do 8 to 10 such
programs in SD and datacasting opportunistically. That would be160 to
200 SD programs streams in any market plus data.
With PVR capability in the receiver that number of channels can be
multiplied in effect by broadcasting content in off hours that will be
auto recorded and just add to the available content. The viewer when
looking at the content that is being broadcast also will see all the
content that is stored.
Then broadcasters withhold content from cable and satellite and we have
a horse race. There is no reason that with good receivers that a
broadcaster can have a better coverage area than cable. (especially if
they were using COFDM) But the 8-VSB ers (rhymes with BSers) claim that
they can do SFN's and on channel repeaters like COFDM so we will see. If
so they can have the best coverage.
This is what broadcasters are talking about. I expect they are getting a
little excited. Things are going their way for a change.
The question is why would anyone buy an 8-VSB receiver that will not
work with the above except to receiver the one SD channel? It is a
guaranteed doorstop. I sure wouldn't buy an integrated set now. Soon we
will start seeing receivers that will do both MPEG2 and the other codecs
mentioned. They would be what you want. In fact broadcasters may
subsidize these receivers because of the subscription service they sell
with it.
As I have said HD if at all will be part of the subscription service IMO.
Broadcasters are only obligated to do one OTA free NTSC quality program
in MPEG2. Who in their right mind thinks that our beloved broadcasters
will do any thing other than that?
With the better Zenith receivers being praised today broadcasters MUST
be taking note of happenings in the UK also today.
First broadcasters have a business model now in the USDTV and Emmis
ventures that is complemented by a better receiver that will let the
USDTV model expand beyond cities in mountain valleys where most truck
rolls to check reception at EACH new customer at least yield new
customers a high percentage of the time.
Next broadcasters watching the latest Hearings in DC have to be relieved
and believe that Congress is not going to come down on them like a ton
of bricks if they don't hue to an HDTV uber alles business plan.
Third the incredible successful SD ventures like the Freeview model in
the UK and Berlin have by now gotten their attention. Freeview boxes
that set a record for the Christmas quarter last year matched that
record in the normally slowest first quarter at another 500,000 boxes.
But what has to have broadcasters saluting today is the affect that the
ultra successful Freeview has had on the TV market in the UK.
Freeview has forced Murdock's Sky satellite venture to offer 200 free
satellite channels in an effort to compete. All a customer has to do is
buy $181 receiver and install.
http
/www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds14674.htmlWith HDTV not far behind
http
/www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds14675.htmlNow broadcasters who for the first time in 50 years see a way out from
under their cable landlords and they have something to compare to in the
UK. If the broadcasters can put together enough spectrum in any given
market and deliver enough channels of programming and better yet maybe a
combination of free and subscription based channels they could compete
with cable and satellite. They could withhold programming instead of
selling cheap or demanding must carry.
With enough key programming removed from cable or satellite in any
market how would they survive? 20 6 MHz channels in a major market, each
doing ONE MPEG2 SD program and the rest, 15 Mbps, of SD, HD and ED
programs some free and some in a subscription service using MPEG4, VP6
or WM9. Statistically multiplexed maybe they could do 8 to 10 such
programs in SD and datacasting opportunistically. That would be160 to
200 SD programs streams in any market plus data.
With PVR capability in the receiver that number of channels can be
multiplied in effect by broadcasting content in off hours that will be
auto recorded and just add to the available content. The viewer when
looking at the content that is being broadcast also will see all the
content that is stored.
Then broadcasters withhold content from cable and satellite and we have
a horse race. There is no reason that with good receivers that a
broadcaster can have a better coverage area than cable. (especially if
they were using COFDM) But the 8-VSB ers (rhymes with BSers) claim that
they can do SFN's and on channel repeaters like COFDM so we will see. If
so they can have the best coverage.
This is what broadcasters are talking about. I expect they are getting a
little excited. Things are going their way for a change.
The question is why would anyone buy an 8-VSB receiver that will not
work with the above except to receiver the one SD channel? It is a
guaranteed doorstop. I sure wouldn't buy an integrated set now. Soon we
will start seeing receivers that will do both MPEG2 and the other codecs
mentioned. They would be what you want. In fact broadcasters may
subsidize these receivers because of the subscription service they sell
with it.
As I have said HD if at all will be part of the subscription service IMO.
Broadcasters are only obligated to do one OTA free NTSC quality program
in MPEG2. Who in their right mind thinks that our beloved broadcasters
will do any thing other than that?
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