As D-Day draws near, the FCC steps in to *manage the publics’ expectations, more to follow… I just received the unofficial press release from the FCC:
COMMISSIONER MCDOWELL TO CONDUCT “90 DAYS OUT” DTV INTERVIEWS
FCC
DTV Transition 2009 :: Industry effect :: Take the on-line poll now!
The DTV Transition that premiered in Wilmington, North Carolina was the first DTV Test Pilot Program in which Analog Broadcasts ended on September 8, 2008. According to the news releases, calls to the support hot line were primarily from individuals who did not read the instructions that came with their converter box. Ahhh, progress! Make … Read more
AT&T Promises Bandwidth Limits: How will this effect streaming media producers?
Bandwidth throttling, as I prefer to call it, began most apparently with Comcast – only because they got caught – of course their valiant effort was in order to prevent what they deemed to be abuse by bandwidth hogs (paraphrase and allegedly) – their outward guise to prevent mass data transfer of illegal music, stolen movies and potential pornographic material of a lascivious nature.
AT&T allegedly filed last Friday with the FCC a “usage-based pricing” model as a form of network management. Streaming service providers and viewers question the impact on HD streaming media quality and accessibility; However, in my mind, the caustic effect will be the ever widening codec /player gap we had hoped to shrink through partnership and collaboration.