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Call me crazy, but I have an idea and it's been kicking around in my head for a while. But, how about a wireless broadcast system for video. I hear you laughing

Call me crazy, but I have an idea and it's been kicking around in my head for a while. But, how about a wireless broadcast system for video. I hear you laughing, but wait. Give me a second. Have large broadcast towers that broadcast out digital (ok, analog signals that are carriers for digital output) signals that can be picked up by antennas in the home. Sounds crazy, right? It could broadcast sports, news, entertainment, you name it. You could even finance it with product placements (strategically placed in the videos) or just short ads (I like to call them commercials, but I am not sure why). You all are pretty smart, does this sound like it has any way at all of succeeding? Talk about cord cutting!

solipsism 10y ago
Seems like you're trying to make some point. No idea what it could be though.
projektir 10y ago
So, over the air?
LAMike 10y ago
Sounds possible, the question is will this be like a pirate radio for video? Or are you trying to legally license content and broadcast it locally. Hopefully I'm not replying to a parody post
- JBReefer 10y ago
  You are replying to a parody post. He's describing broadcast television.
kodablah 10y ago
Hrmm, what shall our company do to all of those people that can't get high quality over the air or just want better quality along with cable/satellite? We should have our channels appear digitally in high quality on the boxes they are already paying for! Sounds crazy, right? Oh, and then we can use our leverage (i.e. these viewers) and our congressional lobbyist to allow us to charge them to carry our content when not over the air! We'll call it "retransmission fees". Sure, maybe there's a side effect where our reliance on retransmission fees is higher than advertising, but who cares...we can have both! You all are pretty smart...these exclusive deals that we make for content that we make hard to obtain not-over-the-air will make big money.
ryuker16 10y ago
Basically ham radio for video. Actually this is the norm for alot of local government and sport broadcast. id imagine video transmission is alot more radio bandwidth/power intensive than straight voice and ham radio chats.

solipsism 10y ago

Seems like you're trying to make some point. No idea what it could be though.

projektir 10y ago

So, over the air?

LAMike 10y ago

Sounds possible, the question is will this be like a pirate radio for video? Or are you trying to legally license content and broadcast it locally. Hopefully I'm not replying to a parody post

JBReefer 10y ago
You are replying to a parody post. He's describing broadcast television.

kodablah 10y ago

Hrmm, what shall our company do to all of those people that can't get high quality over the air or just want better quality along with cable/satellite? We should have our channels appear digitally in high quality on the boxes they are already paying for! Sounds crazy, right? Oh, and then we can use our leverage (i.e. these viewers) and our congressional lobbyist to allow us to charge them to carry our content when not over the air! We'll call it "retransmission fees". Sure, maybe there's a side effect where our reliance on retransmission fees is higher than advertising, but who cares...we can have both! You all are pretty smart...these exclusive deals that we make for content that we make hard to obtain not-over-the-air will make big money.

ryuker16 10y ago

Basically ham radio for video. Actually this is the norm for alot of local government and sport broadcast. id imagine video transmission is alot more radio bandwidth/power intensive than straight voice and ham radio chats.