Comments on: Why is Television like newspapers? http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/11/why-is-television-like-newspapers/ Philip Hodgetts Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:12:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Philip http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/11/why-is-television-like-newspapers/#comment-65576 Philip Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:56:50 +0000 http://www.philiphodgetts.com/?p=563#comment-65576 K Melon browser support is not going to happen - I run on Mac and it's PC only with an incredibly small market share. Whilever the site renders fine in Safari, IE 8 or later, Chrome and Firefox I'm happy. Thanks for the kind comments about the content. Philip K Melon browser support is not going to happen – I run on Mac and it’s PC only with an incredibly small market share. Whilever the site renders fine in Safari, IE 8 or later, Chrome and Firefox I’m happy. Thanks for the kind comments about the content.

Philip

]]> By: Lucie Worthan http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/11/why-is-television-like-newspapers/#comment-65572 Lucie Worthan Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:33:34 +0000 http://www.philiphodgetts.com/?p=563#comment-65572 Very informative text. I've found your site via Google and I'm really glad about the information you provide in your posts. Btw your sites layout is really messed up on the Kmelon browser. Would be great if you could fix that. Anyhow keep up the great work! Very informative text. I’ve found your site via Google and I’m really glad about the information you provide in your posts. Btw your sites layout is really messed up on the Kmelon browser. Would be great if you could fix that. Anyhow keep up the great work!

]]> By: James Gardiner http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/11/why-is-television-like-newspapers/#comment-56317 James Gardiner Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:16:51 +0000 http://www.philiphodgetts.com/?p=563#comment-56317 Phil, You know I have been sprouting this issue for two years now. The more interesting issue is.. I still see a need for terrestrial/satellite broadcast technologies.. Live Sport or news. Infrastructure wise, a single tower covering a huge area is more robust and requires less kit and NO-interoperability issues as to try and do it over the internet. There "should" always be a need for terrestrial/satellite for that type of content distribution. However, I am not sure it is completely viable. Once all the other content is pulled out of our typical commercial packed free to air TV.. can the high expense of supplying the niche products of sport and news pay for itself? And if so, how well? Where will the level of production quality lie? This is the more interesting point. Being in a typical Free-to-air industry has a dim future just like paper based media. Strangely this does not seem as apparent to those in that industry as yet. This brings me back to the point of one of the key reasons AppleTV and similar systems fail. They never include support for older technologies like Terrestrial or Satellite. Until they do, the traction will only be limited. The Vendors supporting digital-tuners and integrating a streaming media services. That is going to start making a difference over the next few years indeed. Still waiting to see if Apple will wake up to itself. Tho the New Remote with still only 5 buttons. Its as idiotic as a one button mouse. James Phil,
You know I have been sprouting this issue for two years now. The more interesting issue is..

I still see a need for terrestrial/satellite broadcast technologies.. Live Sport or news. Infrastructure wise, a single tower covering a huge area is more robust and requires less kit and NO-interoperability issues as to try and do it over the internet.

There “should” always be a need for terrestrial/satellite for that type of content distribution.

However, I am not sure it is completely viable. Once all the other content is pulled out of our typical commercial packed free to air TV.. can the high expense of supplying the niche products of sport and news pay for itself? And if so, how well? Where will the level of production quality lie?

This is the more interesting point. Being in a typical Free-to-air industry has a dim future just like paper based media. Strangely this does not seem as apparent to those in that industry as yet.

This brings me back to the point of one of the key reasons AppleTV and similar systems fail. They never include support for older technologies like Terrestrial or Satellite. Until they do, the traction will only be limited. The Vendors supporting digital-tuners and integrating a streaming media services. That is going to start making a difference over the next few years indeed.

Still waiting to see if Apple will wake up to itself. Tho the New Remote with still only 5 buttons. Its as idiotic as a one button mouse.

James

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