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Of the FCC decision for denying multicast must carry foxeng says...
"If you really think that this will dissuade stations from multicasting,
you are sadly mistaken. In the end, it may ultimately spur it on.
Broadcasters have to find a way to make money and because must carry was
shot down, you may see MANY MORE USDTV types pop up causing stations who
other wise might have only 1 or 2 subchannels along with a HD channel,
will now carve up the whole bandwidth and NOT provide HD at all, opting
to sell the bandwidth and providing the one SD only MPEG2 free to air
channel required by the FCC.
Remember the old saying, "be careful what you wish for, you may get it.""
I agree, broadcasters have to focus on their OTA spectrum now. For the
last 6 years they have focused on Must Carry. When they look at their
OTA possibilities one stands out just as foxeng says. Do a minimal SD
program to satisfy the FCC rule that you must deliver one free OTA SD
program using MPEG2. Then do what ever you want with the rest. If you
have compelling content cable will want to carry it. If that is HD fine,
if it is multiple streams of ED or SD or a combination of all of them so
be it. The rest will be delivered with MPEG4 and there will be
multicasting. Will there be HD? Depends on demand.
I want HD, think its great, but the numbers tell me that most viewers of
TV do not think that way. More importantly a broadcaster could deliver
more programming in ED than HD and a high percent of viewers who already
have HD sets have 42" or less where ED will be hard to distinguish from
HD. A high percentage of plasmas that are sold are ED to begin with and
I think the product mix will reflect that more and more.
I think you are going to see a whole lot of ED now that this decision
has been made. And as I have said before and foxeng says above, more
USDTV types popping up.
Bob Miller
Of the FCC decision for denying multicast must carry foxeng says...
"If you really think that this will dissuade stations from multicasting,
you are sadly mistaken. In the end, it may ultimately spur it on.
Broadcasters have to find a way to make money and because must carry was
shot down, you may see MANY MORE USDTV types pop up causing stations who
other wise might have only 1 or 2 subchannels along with a HD channel,
will now carve up the whole bandwidth and NOT provide HD at all, opting
to sell the bandwidth and providing the one SD only MPEG2 free to air
channel required by the FCC.
Remember the old saying, "be careful what you wish for, you may get it.""
I agree, broadcasters have to focus on their OTA spectrum now. For the
last 6 years they have focused on Must Carry. When they look at their
OTA possibilities one stands out just as foxeng says. Do a minimal SD
program to satisfy the FCC rule that you must deliver one free OTA SD
program using MPEG2. Then do what ever you want with the rest. If you
have compelling content cable will want to carry it. If that is HD fine,
if it is multiple streams of ED or SD or a combination of all of them so
be it. The rest will be delivered with MPEG4 and there will be
multicasting. Will there be HD? Depends on demand.
I want HD, think its great, but the numbers tell me that most viewers of
TV do not think that way. More importantly a broadcaster could deliver
more programming in ED than HD and a high percent of viewers who already
have HD sets have 42" or less where ED will be hard to distinguish from
HD. A high percentage of plasmas that are sold are ED to begin with and
I think the product mix will reflect that more and more.
I think you are going to see a whole lot of ED now that this decision
has been made. And as I have said before and foxeng says above, more
USDTV types popping up.
Bob Miller
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