Requiring the development of a portable video device that works a...
Requiring the development of a portable video device that works across delivery platforms nationally wouldn’t serve the public interest, Dish Network and EchoStar said in comments to the FCC for its National Broadband Plan. They said direct broadcast satellite…
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service remains limited by one-way spectrum, while cable, telco TV and IPTV have two-way operating network architecture. Combining the technologies in a box would make it “overly complex and prohibitively expensive for consumers,” the companies said. The security requirements for satellite-TV’s over-the-air “broadcast nature” don’t apply to closed, two-way cable systems, they said. Features and services expected to emerge the next few years could become a competitive battleground between TV providers and would only worsen the problems of a box for all the technologies, they said.