Aereo gives consumers the ability to watch a “very limited number of local TV stations”, on a very limited number of devices, in what the industry would classify as non-HD content. They don’t support Android devices and in order to get it to your TV, you have to have two devices, an Apple TV AND an iPad/iPhone.

And they can’t scale “almost instantly”. They have to setup antenna farms in each city, rent co-lo space, power, handoffs, connect to their CDN etc…. and every single stream they deliver, and ever show thet have to store in the cloud costs them more money. The economics are very hard to scale and the infrastructure can’t be turned up quickly, at scale.

Aereo knows this, that’s why they had to go out and raise a B round already. It’s very cost intensive, even with all the cloud services in the market today.

Organize to sue the “broadcasters” who are GIVEN FREE SPECTRUM, but cannot deliver a usable signal to the geographic locations that they claim to serve, thus necessitating a subscription to the Aereo service.

You’re right that Aereo has yet to disrupt the market. But the company has yet do any marketing and it is able to scale almost instantly.

Whether we like Aereo, or think it is moral or legal, is immaterial for deciding if it’s disruptive.

Aereo’s numbers are so small, they won’t even disclose them. And when they were required to in court, last May, they said they had 3,500 subscribers, many of which were not paying and still trialing the service. That’s not disruption.

We need less hype and more reality in the industry. A company should not be classified by the media as being “disruptive” unless they actually are, with data to prove it.