 Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | Cable demand "white space" revision Why would it interfere with Cable communications? It wouldn't, unless their cable shielding is inferior. It's like saying "Broadcast TV will interfere with Cable's signals". WTH?
I think the thought of free low-speed internet scares the crap out of these huge corporations.
..not to mention EarthLink, it'd kill off Dialup.. Period.
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 tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
kudos:5 | I think Cable industry concern is both competitive and technical.
On the technical front concern is even at low power nearby transmitters will interfere with poorly shielded consumer A/V gear.
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by tschmidt:I think Cable industry concern is both competitive and technical. On the technical front concern is even at low power nearby transmitters will interfere with poorly shielded consumer A/V gear. /tom it's competiton pure and simple. They wouldn't be the least concerned if we were talking about emergency responders using "white space" |
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said by Simba7:Why would it interfere with Cable communications? It wouldn't, unless their cable shielding is inferior. It's like saying "Broadcast TV will interfere with Cable's signals". WTH? Their concern probably has to do with interference to received signals at the headend. Broadcast stations are still received over the air, using high gain antennas. If white space devices proliferate, it could cause interference problems.
Yeah, there's probably a certain element of anti-competitiveness in it as well. |
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 Vchat20Landing is the REAL challengePremium
join:2003-09-16
Columbus, OH | said by fifty nine:said by Simba7:Why would it interfere with Cable communications? It wouldn't, unless their cable shielding is inferior. It's like saying "Broadcast TV will interfere with Cable's signals". WTH? Their concern probably has to do with interference to received signals at the headend. Broadcast stations are still received over the air, using high gain antennas. If white space devices proliferate, it could cause interference problems. Yeah, there's probably a certain element of anti-competitiveness in it as well. This is not always the case. Some use direct feeds either via fiber or some other sort of high bandwidth pipe. Granted, it's a crapshoot on what stations and cable providers do this. Those that don't, of course, still use the old standby of high-gain antennas.
Though with the article it's hard to say exactly what their agenda is. Could be trying to kill off broadband competition against their own services, could be the aforementioned concern over the OTA feeds to their headends, and of course it could also be ignorance abounds that they think it'll ingress into their cable plant-In which the only remote case I could see is at the consumer residence where these whitespace devices are in use and ingress into the cable plant through unterminate splits, bad cable, low grade shielding RG59, etc..
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| said by Vchat20:This is not always the case. Some use direct feeds either via fiber or some other sort of high bandwidth pipe. Granted, it's a crapshoot on what stations and cable providers do this. Those that don't, of course, still use the old standby of high-gain antennas.
Not everyone uses fiber feeds, not by a long shot. Mostly larger stations (big four O&Os and affiliates) that opt for retransmission consent (versus must carry) use fiber feeds and satellite. Even DirecTV has been using antennas in many areas to receive local channels. Locally, Service Electric had to drop WTBY because when they switched to digital exclusively the signal was not receivable at the headend. It's going to become a bigger issue when everyone finally drops the analog. The smaller stations that depend on must carry will end up suffering. |
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Vchat20Landing is the REAL challengePremium
join:2003-09-16
Columbus, OH | Like I said: It's a crapshoot. |
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