Aereo going to court.....duh duh duhm (cant wait to see the outcome)

Good article in FastCompany today about the upcoming court case for Aereo

http://www.fastcompany.com/1838490/a-tv-platform-so-disruptive-everyones-suing-it
We chat with Chet Kanojia of Aereo, the new TV-where-and-when-you-want-it service that has a few legal troubles. Could Aereo finally disrupt the loathed cable bundle--and TV altogether?



Will be interesting to see how this shakes out and if Barry Dillers/IAC investment in the "legal fees" for this startup was worth it.

If they win this will be the biggest ruling in the TV industry since the Cablevision remote DVR ruling.

As a matter of interest i looked up to see if  TVCatchup (UK) and http://www.mytvr.com.au/ (Aus) were still running and it looks like they are.

Anyone want to predict which "cable channel" will be the first one to break ranks and deliver a service directly the the Aereo headend for inclusion in the paid subscription?


Cheers,
Dean

Aereo - i wonder who their lawyers are?

Internet-TV Firm Gets IAC Backing
An Internet-TV start-up backed by media veteran Barry Diller could tempt more television viewers to cut the cable cord, but it might be in for a fight from media companies.


The company, Aereo, unveiled plans on Wednesday to offer New York City residents beginning March 14 the ability to stream broadcast-TV signals over Web-enabled devices for $12 a month.



Considering Ivi.tv got shut down with an injunction last year.... http://blog.collins.net.pr/2010/10/ivi-not-gotta-licensewhatye-going-todo.html  ...we'll see.

You might also want to check out the TVnow court case thats happening in Australia with Optus and Foxtel at the moment, explains some of the core copyright issues here - http://blog.collins.net.pr/2012/02/tvnow-court-case-in-australia.html
I wonder who Aereo's lawyers are? Though lets face it IAC has plenty deep pockets so expect this one to go the distance.

Cheers,
Dean

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Still need convincing read more here - http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Aereo-Founder-Launches-Starry-Gigabit-Wireless-Service-136169

 

Aereo Founder Launches 'Starry' Gigabit Wireless Service -

While Aereo founder Chaitanya Kanojia failed to disrupt television, today he unveiled a new wireless broadband carrier he hopes will disrupt the cellular industry. At a New York launch event today Kanojia unveiled Starry, a new wireless ISP that promises to use millimeter wave technology to deliver gigabit wireless speeds to your home. The technology will lean heavily on mesh networked city nodes utilizing 30GHz+ spectrum. Users will receive both a "Starry Point" antenna that sits outside of your window to connect to the city node, as well as a customized $350 router the company is calling a "Starry Station." The station comes with a touch-screen LED display that will offer an integrated speed test, a map of participating city nodes, and how many household devices are connected. Kanojia isn't yet revealing pricing, but claims he'll offer pricing that's "orders of magnitude cheaper" than incumbent providers, with no usage caps. Yes, offering gigabit wireless at low prices with no caps does sound like wishful thinking. Konojia claims it's possible using "millimeter active phased array technology" and hundreds of scattered rooftop nodes throughout each city. "With Starry's technology, we can deploy and scale faster than traditional wired networks -- at a fraction of the cost,"

Fox threatens to pull FTA content.....Goodbye, free TV?

http://allthingsd.com/20130408/news-corp-threatens-to-pull-fox-off-the-airwaves-if-aereo-wins/
Goodbye, free TV?
News Corp. COO Chase Carey said his conglomerate is considering moving programming from its Fox broadcast network, which viewers can receive over the air, for free, to its pay cable networks.
Carey floated the idea during a speech at a TV industry conference today, in response to a recent court ruling that gave startup Aereo the go-ahead, at least temporarily,  to show programming from Fox and other broadcasters on its Web TV service, without paying for the shows.



is this really a viable option for Fox?  what sort of viewer numbers would they lose? more importantly.....would this mean that they could have to allow in another content provider into their OTA slots if they move to cable only.

I'm assuming its all a bluff but curious for more details about what this really means.

Personally I think this will never ever ever ever happen...so not sure why they are even making the bluff, but curious what happens if this rolls out to other countries.

Tablet.tv

So its Aereo ....but in your house
- http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0086/tablet-tv-prepares-for-san-francisco-beta-tests/272047

Cloudy future for Australian cloud based DVR's

Do you think Australia is going to be left behind the USA in a legal limbo with the Cloud DVR ruling last year -  http://www.zdnet.com/cloud-tvrs-stop-in-wake-of-tv-now-ruling-1339338503/
Should www.MyTVR.com etc sold their soul to Channel 9 or similar and allowed one (or more) of the tv channels to buy into their cap table in order to steer the decisions a different way?

With the cablevision "remote hard drive" ruling in the USA (http://blog.collins.net.pr/search?q=cablevision) isnt there some kind of IP harmonization tack that can be tried - or even once the Aereo case works its way through the courts (saw they launched in Boston last week) is this a possible alternative challenge with the rental of "per user antennas?

Anyone closer to the action in Australia know whats going on?