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Re: Broadcast television in an IP world


From: Kraig Beahn <kraig () enguity com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 09:13:31 -0500

The OTT side is already being implemented by a major broadcast customer of
ours.

Right now they simply rebroadcast their news, both live and prerecorded,
i'm assuming until the national networks and syndicators will allow
reasonable OTT licensing fee's.

They use a product called SyncBak (for which they've also invested in
heavily) and offer the streams for all of their market stations nationwide.
You can in turn use a Roku or Roku like STB to ascertain the feed, live and
in HD at that.

We currently provide the fiber and peering facilities, and are intimately
familiar with the network and video production side.

Very neat product, at that...

IP translator and MPEG network side:
http://www.syncbak.com

Example station: https://channelstore.roku.com/details/47424/wctv




On Nov 17, 2017 7:53 PM, "Luke Guillory" <lguillory () reservetele com> wrote:

Because local OTA channels are probably most of what people want live
outside of sporting events.



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On Nov 17, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl () gmail com<
mailto:baldur.norddahl () gmail com>> wrote:


Much live programming could be done without significant additional burden
if the community could agree on multicast delivery standards.




Does multicast have any future? Netflix, YouTube, et al does not use it.
People want instant replay and a catalogue to select from. Except for sport
events, live TV has no advantage so why even try to optimize for it?




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