How much better? Chuck Profito 209-988-7388 CV-ACCESS, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing High Speed Broadband to Rural Central California
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:14 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] IPTV MPEG-4 systems can provide much better bitrates. Most of DirecTV's HD is in MPEG-4. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Brownlee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:04 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] IPTV > 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. >> As they use more and more bandwidth it gives the customer incentive >> to upgrade their commit. >> >> -Matt >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > ---- >> >> ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 >> at > ISPCON ** >> ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 - San Jose, CA www.ispcon.com ** >> ** THE INTERNET INDUSTRY EVENT ** >> ** FREE Exhibits and Events Pass available until August 31 ** >> ** Use Customer Code WSEMF7 when you register online at > http://www.ispcon.com/register.php ** >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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