Comments on: Aereo CEO: Our cheap TV wouldn’t exist without cloud computing

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:08:52 +0000

Kanojia downplays the outcome of the copyright litigation because a small company isn’t likely to beat big corporations with high-powered lawyers in court, so it’s not in Kanojia’s business interest to say much about that.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:39:23 +0000

If the big broadcast networks go out of business due to this kind of technology there will be no content to rebroadcast. In the end there will have to be some kind of compromise with these kinds of serves. Companies like Aereo clearly have no interest in the content of what they are broadcasting – they are just stealing it. At least the big networks have to be accountable to the audiences (And, yes their advertisers. I think if an “Aereo” typed company takes off they will have to start producing their own program material and because quality video production, and all that goes along with it, is very expensive I doubt that the charge for the service will remain as low as 1.00

By: Jimfromearth

Jimfromearth — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:58:37 +0000

If stored in the cloud and then transmitted. Its retransmitted. If it is live steaming it’s not
retransmitted. Which is it? Anyway maybe I will have to sell my antennas on eBay soon.
Ime rooting for Aereo.

By: skeptic86

skeptic86 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:01:37 +0000

Storage is (surprisingly) counted in powers of 10 not 2, e.g. 1 megabyte of disk storage is 1 million (and not 1024*1024) bytes. Blame the HDD industry.

By: skeptic86

skeptic86 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:58:28 +0000

> Kanojia says the company is buying “tens of petabytes of storage” for as low as $95 a terrabyte
I realize you guys are “down to earth” (terra) but it’s terabyte.

By: TimeKepper

TimeKepper — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:55:57 +0000

“Kanojia says the company is buying “tens of petayptes of storage” for as low as $95 a terrabyte, and that the price is dropping all the time.”

1 Peta = 1024 terabyte
1024 x $95 = $97,280/peta
10peta x $97,280/peta = $972,800/10 petas

Doesn’t sound too cheap AND it doesn’t look like the subscriber base is large enough to cover the storage cost let alone CDN and legal costs.

Does no one run the numbers on these tech companies claims?

By: CJ Swan

CJ Swan — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:31:15 +0000

Chet Kanojia was excellent yesterday at the VideoSchmooze conference. His calm command of the technology and the strategic direction for Aereo was striking. He may be worried about the outcome of the copyright litigation and attendant consequences, but you would not know it by listening to him.

By: Vinod Shintre

Vinod Shintre — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:11:45 +0000

Got to be cloud
http://www.attribo.com

By: JF

JF — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:47:40 +0000

Because Cablevision is paying the networks for the right to retransmit their content. All they are doing is storing paid-for content for later consumption by paying subscribers. Quite a different scenario than Aereo which is retransmitting content that they have no rights to retransmit.

By: christajoe

christajoe — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:00:34 +0000

TV-on-the-go sounds similar to satellite TV service with a difference that it is used for a hand held device. One thing I could not understand here is how antennas are connected to the device I mean I’m sure that it must be available for all smart-devices and no separate hardware need to be purchased for that. So how does the receiver is inputted in the device?