I'm not sure of the brand, this was many years ago, and I don't think I
could find a logo I was in a largish hotel that had a STB that had a
single Cat5 running into it. HDMI to the TV, Analog phone port to the
room phone, and WIFI AP. You turned on the TV and it worked. Maybe The
Hospitality arena already has something that you're looking for that
could be adapted to MDU?
On 9/17/2024 8:59 AM, dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the main reason is for MDU’s. If the owners are going to build
a TV service into their leases then their option is either a deal for
both TV and Internet from cable, or to work with two different
companies. They’re probably not going to work with two companies.
Our solution right now is mybundle.tv, which is not providing anything
that the customer couldn’t get on their own, and there’s not much in
it for us.
I really want it to be a turnkey thing because we’ll have less sunk
cost if we want to drop it someday. And I’ll say we have Realchoice
for one building now, and our cost on the TV package is something like
$11/month per unit. Obviously that’s profitable for us while also
being attractive for the landlords.
My ONLY complaint with Realchoice TV is they don’t have a set top
box. There are situations where I think that would be desirable. For
example, one of our customers is a fully furnished student housing
facility where the TV is already there when the kids move in. If
we’re a box on HDMI1 then they could just turn on the TV and it would
work immediately. Otherwise we have to provide instructions for them
to open the app, which a lot of them will never read, and with new
tenants coming in every year I’d rather it was just **there** when
they turn on the TV. The same logic would apply for hospitality and
commercial scenarios. If the hotel TV required you to turn on a Roku
and open an app then I’ll bet half the guests are going to call the
front desk not knowing what to do because they didn’t read the
instructions posted next to the TV. If the doctor’s office TV
requires you to open an app after turning it on, then I’ll bet we’ll
walk in and see the Roku home screen most of the time because the
staff won’t know or won’t care about doing that every time.
Basically, while I love that they have apps for Roku, Android, iOS,
etc, I want a set top box to be available as an option because I
believe a lot of people are terminally lazy or stupid.
If there’s a way to have an Android set top box that automatically
opens a particular app on bootup then that might solve my one
Realchoice quibble. It would have to be something we could buy
already set up like that.
* I already know Dish/Direct are going to have a system where I do
all the work and they get all the money. That’s how they did
satellite and I doubt their streaming would have any different
philosophy.
* I have one opinion that Rodeo wasn’t good. Any concurrence or
disagreement on that?
* I’ll never get buy in from upper management to invest six figures
in a head-end, and I don’t really want that to be my problem.
There must be other players for reselling an IP TV option. Do we know
of any?
If Layne is still on this list I do apologize buddy. Your company has
always responded when we needed something and I’d advocate your
product to anyone. In fact, I currently **am** advocating your product
to our upper management. I only have the /one/ issue, and I know I’ll
be asked about it, and I want to have an answer prepared ahead of time
when it comes up.
-Adam
*From:*AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 17, 2024 6:51 AM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] IP TV
I have been through this several times. Huge pita, not worth the effort.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 16, 2024, at 11:28 PM, Darin Steffl
<darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> wrote:
It's probably best to avoid TV at this point. Very low margin, lots of
issues, increasing wholesale rates, churn, etc.
Lots of companies are dropping TV and pushing people to streaming instead.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 7:13 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:
Out of curiosity, why do you want to do TV?
*From:*AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Adam Moffett
*Sent:* Monday, September 16, 2024 6:48 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] IP TV
Good to know
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*Sent:* Monday, September 16, 2024 7:30:35 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] IP TV
We had an extremely bad experience with Rodeo TV, FYI. We ended up
building a proper cable TV headend. It was definitely not a
turnkey project.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
The last time I dug into doing TV I found anything from
companies that would help you set up a head-end to the turnkey
players like Realchoice. I think I’d rather be on the turnkey
end of it.
The most
I know Realchoice TV is a good product. They’ve always been
responsive whenever I needed anything, and the TV works fine.
What else is out there these days?
* Realchoice TV
* Rodeo Networks? Are they still a thing?
* Direct TV has something you can resell as well, but
frankly I’ve been a retailer for Dish Network and DirecTV
for satellite TV, and both were like having an abusive
spouse.
What else is there?
-Adam
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