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This is a really good idea. We should refarm 400-700MHz over the next 10 years and use it for Internet service. The broadcasters will eventually be forced out o
by hwstar 11y ago
This is a really good idea. We should refarm 400-700MHz over the next 10 years and use it for Internet service. The broadcasters will eventually be forced out of business due to IPTV. Have you seen the kind of programming currently broadcasted by some of these UHF non-network TV stations in big cities?
It's dreck.
The non-network TV broadcasters are desperate for audiences which aren't watching their programs, and therefore the ads interspersed in these programs. Their businesses will fail in due time as more people switch to IPTV.
The only snag I see is how to broadcast emergency messages over IPTV. This is something which needs to be resolved before we refarm the UHF TV band.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoPush notifications for emergency broadcasts. Receive only RF chipsets if absolutely required.
- zimbatm 11y agoNotifications are location dependent. How do you solve the issue without having everyone publishing their location all the time ?
- sp332 11y agoOnly broadcast them from towers near the emergency. Or tag each notification with an affected area and let the device decide if it's applicable.
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- throway0815a 11y agoYou encode the location information in the actual broadcast message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding This is a solved problem: weather radios have been doing this for years.