I'd be interested. I've checked a few, and so far have been unable to find a solution with programming that allows you to broadcast wirelessly due to license agreements. Not to mention one channel is approximately 4megs, and HD is 20megs, at TV quality anyway. These two things are large technical hurdles, especially for WISPs. 3 TVs in the home on different channels? 12megs.
There are a few turnkey solutions deploying for small businesses now, with break-evens set around a 1000 customer base, that will allow "ala-carte" to a point. The ala-carte programming is foiled by the networks and their contracts, not necessarily the cable/aggregate companies. If you get 1 channel from a company, they want to serve all their channels to you (You can't get HBO without HBO2, HBO-West, HBO-Family, etc.). That is setup in the carrier agreements with whomever is brokering the aggregate deals. I agree with your #2 below, yep! If you come up with something, please hit me up with the info as we would definitely be interested. Brandon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clint Ricker Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:37 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV Matt, I'm understanding from you that if there was a good way to do this, you'd definitely be interested? Is anyone else out there potentially interested? This is an area that I've been working in for quite a while now, and the technology is there and deployable. There are two main obstacles, however. 1. Getting programming 2. Upfront costs of deployment (video headend infrastructures are not cheap...) Both of those are not really issues, but do require a bit of scale.... I'm working on a good platform to be able to do this on a centralized level that can then support multiple, smaller service providers. I'm interested in seeing if this is of interest to a large enough userbase through WISPs to make it worth the effort in building in support for those customers... -Clint Ricker On 9/10/07, Matt Liotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brad Belton wrote: > > Correct, we see the same requests. However, why try re-inventing the wheel > > when DirecTV already has a solution in place? Every time this issue has > > popped up the client was more than happy to pay the DirecTV price even if > > they only wanted CNN or FOX. > > > Are you reselling DirecTV now? > > > It just didn't seem to make sense (yet) to put additional load on the IP leg > > into a building when the service is already available from the roof where we > > already have rights. > > > Yes, but then you are running coax to various tenants and various drops. > If it is a business park then you are putting a dish on each building. > > In our case, we would like to charge them for the channels, but bundle > the bandwidth usage into their service just like we do VoIP. 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