Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-11 Thread Michael McConnell
On Jun 7, 2013, at 9:53 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Michael Painter" > >> Anyone besides jra remember the last Super Bowl? >> Better this year? Worse? >> I'm sure whomever is listening in would like to know as well. >> >> http://www.multichannel.com/blogs/

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-11 Thread Rajiv Asati (rajiva)
This is very interesting and insightful. While the broadcasting would seem more efficient (and cheaper in many respect) than webcasting for the live content, the former can't quite serve multiple devices with varying form-factors with the same efficiency. The latter can. Isn't that a key diffe

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-10 Thread Michael Painter
Jay Ashworth wrote: sniip And, quite aside from broadcast networks protecting the ad revenues of their contracted affiliates -- the primary reason for most of the (from an engineering standpoint) stupidity surrounding the intersection of broadcasting and new technology -- social networking is be

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-09 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Eric Adler" > The view from my side, as both a broadcaster and a consumer of both > broadcast and 'webcast' content: My own comments were, and are, from the outside, following along cause I'll have to deal with it after they make the choices. > From what I'

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-09 Thread Michael Painter
Eric Adler wrote: The view from my side, as both a broadcaster and a consumer of both broadcast and 'webcast' content: [snip] Thank you Eric...your comments are very much appreciated. --Michael

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-09 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-06-09 12:47, Eric Adler wrote: > TV that was made in the mid-to-late 1980s (Sony Watchman) and now they are > trying to 'solve' the mobile delivery 'problem'. Qualcomm is working on adding "broadcast" capabilities to LTE (this was from recent at a conference (Telecom Summit in Toronto), so

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-09 Thread Eric Adler
The view from my side, as both a broadcaster and a consumer of both broadcast and 'webcast' content: >From what I've been led to understand in my time in broadcast*, the decision wasn't made because of power costs but because they (the Grand Alliance and the FCC) believed that 8VSB would work bett

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-08 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "cb.list6" > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Brandon Butterworth > wrote: > > The next try is LTE Broadcast > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMBMS > > Without going into painful detail on the policy, technology or > economics, i really don't see EMBMS being

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-08 Thread cb.list6
Date: 06/08/2013 9:52 AM (GMT-08:00) > To: Brandon Butterworth > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was > Re: Wackie 'ol Friday) > > > On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Brandon Butterworth > wrote: >>>

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-08 Thread Warren Bailey
rworth Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday) On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Brandon Butterworth wrote: >> I was at an incentive auction discussion earlier in the week where it >> was suggest

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-08 Thread cb.list6
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Brandon Butterworth wrote: >> I was at an incentive auction discussion earlier in the week where it >> was suggested that the broadcasters see a rosy future with ATSC >> beaming to mobile, but there is still work to be done. > > They might wish, after many years the

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-08 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> I was at an incentive auction discussion earlier in the week where it > was suggested that the broadcasters see a rosy future with ATSC > beaming to mobile, but there is still work to be done. They might wish, after many years there has been little take up of the various systems created to do th

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-08 Thread Joly MacFie
I was at an incentive auction discussion earlier in the week where it was suggested that the broadcasters see a rosy future with ATSC beaming to mobile, but there is still work to be done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC-M/H On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original

Re: Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-07 Thread Michael Painter
Jay Ashworth wrote: "He's at the 40... the 30... the 20... this is gonna be the Super Bowl, folks... the 10... [buffering]" Cheers, -- jra lol...tnx Jay!

Webcasting as a replacement for traditional broadcasting (was Re: Wackie 'ol Friday)

2013-06-07 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Painter" > Anyone besides jra remember the last Super Bowl? > Better this year? Worse? > I'm sure whomever is listening in would like to know as well. > > http://www.multichannel.com/blogs/translation-please/multicast-unicast-and-super-bowl-problem