On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Warren Bailey <wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote: > Japan has been doing this exact thing for close to 10 years.. Why is it hard
Japan has been doing what exactly? Can you cite it? I am pretty sure by "exact thing" you do not mean EMBMS. > to do? Buffer the video 30 seconds or use a codec that doesn't blow? I use > my phone via "4G"and stream media constantly. If you take a look at Charlie Yes, and by "streaming", you mean downloading discrete video chunks with http. That is the state of the industry today video over unicast TCP / HTTP. It is not EMBMS A very large percentage of mobile data traffic today is video via HTTP http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-520862.html I do not know of any EMBMS deployments. CB > Ergen's behavior lately, there won't need to be a lte tv.. Lightsquared is > about to be murdered for breaking the Gps and dish will take over as largest > provider in the US. Now taking bets. > > > Sent from my Mobile Device. > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: "cb.list6" <cb.li...@gmail.com> > Date: 06/08/2013 9:52 AM (GMT-08:00) > To: Brandon Butterworth <bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk> > 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 > <bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk> 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 there has been little take up of the >> various systems created to do this (we've spent quite some time working >> on the standards). Nobody wanted to pay for it to be in handsets, other >> features were seen as more important uses of the space/power. >> >> 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 widely deployed and > successful > > Not to say some folks won't try to make pigs fly. Vendors make a lot > of money at the "pigs flying" BU. > > I do imagine the invisible hand of tariffs guiding users to better use > broadcast TV and Radio for live events. > > CB > >> brandon >> >
