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why is this technology not here yet? i know it is here,but its terrible and more or less useless and horrible choices. you would think the ability to watch many channels,whether its cable or free TV, on the internet would be in todays technology by now. weird.
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Think over how the money flows from advertisers to pay for the TV and more. Consider how the BBC gets part of their funding.
In that analysis you find your answer.
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I was so very disappointed in this. Especially that I gave up my credit card number for the free trial! There are 4 separate video "pipelines." Three of these pipelines are virtually useless. One is a weather loop. Another is of bars/tone for hours on end. The third SOMETIMES shows content in-between a time countdown. The main "CNN International" pipeline is NOT actually the CNN we are used to seeing on TV. It's a watered-down version with a different anchor, the old rehashed news stories you can get for free, and some stillframes of text updates which leave you wondering why you don't just read the website. I could find nothing timely in this, and was so sorely disappointed. Give it a pass and keep watching the free streams. I would have expected a live feed of CNN, not a fake "webcast" without any up-to-minute information and rehashed videos.
I live in South Korea, and my girlfriend just bought a DMB phone, which is all the rage here. The Korean TV channels, over 50 of them in video and radio, are fed to mobile phones via satellite (perfect quality at about 15fps, with perfect resolution, color, and reception even underground in the subway! You can even record. It's fabulous. Costs her an additional 10 dollars a month on her phone bill. The phone cost her 350 dollars new.
But why not in the USA? No, this is satellite, so bad phone reception is not an excuse this time.
I used to work for a TV station. They're totally freaked-out about losing control of their advertising power. Nothing like this will happen until they figure a full-proof way to make money off of it. Until then -- no advances in tech.
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