10 thoughts on “Aereo and Boxee live on with Simple.TV Cloud DVR”
Interesting… seems tough if you have an ISP with a bandwidth limit (which is a total scam). But still, I’d love to give it a try!
But will it actually save the content as it is? When I had a Boxee Cloud DVR, the recordings were further compressed for storage in the cloud. And it also only stored the audio as stereo. So 5.1 shows only played back in 2.0
Also no Boxee ability to pause live TV… that was kind of a deal breaker for me.
Done right this could be very expensive on the providers end. Done wrong this could sour people on cloud dvr’s. In order to do this right you are going need a company with scale say Amazon or Microsoft. Cord cutters are going to hate the monthly fee’s and/ or advertising. And what happens if Simple goes broke? And then there is the usual streaming problems. I think we’ll see this version of a cloud dvr on the tech trash heap next to Google Tv.
And there I thought Simple.TV had disappeared. Interested to see if they can get this back in the US. Cloud DVR is still a viable idea.
If you have FiOS ~fast, with no caps~ maybe it’s viable. Boxee’s Cloud DVR wasn’t very good…
“If you have FiOS ~fast, with no caps~ maybe it’s viable.”
Of course, the mostly highly urbanized markets that FIOS chose to cherry pick have major overlap with the markets that don’t get decent OTA. There’s a reason Aereo launched in NYC, for example.
And more broadly, last I checked the percentage of all households in the US that don’t get decent OTA is around a third…
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If anyone is going to pull something like this off, it’s going to be that outfit that recently won a district court case to offer OTT broadcast retransmission by paying some FCC-set fee for broadcast retransmission that is much lower than the MSO negotiated fees run.
I’ll go a step further and say the one outfit than can pull it off is based in Cupertino and currently negotiating with the local broadcasters…
“I’ll go a step further and say the one outfit than can pull it off is based in Cupertino and currently negotiating with the local broadcasters…”
Of course, by negotiating with the local broadcasters, as well as the networks and their other properties, Cupertino wouldn’t be eligible for that mandated FCC set much lower rate for retransmission.
So Cupertino can keep negotiating to pay $30/month for something the rights’ holders want $60+ for until the cows come home, (not to mention negotiating with companies that fear Cupertino far more than any other company), and it’ll keep you and Gene Munster entertained for years! It’s a better diversion than teevee! It’s win-win!
It’s always 2001 in the halls of Cupertino, and every industry is the music industry…
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Interesting… seems tough if you have an ISP with a bandwidth limit (which is a total scam). But still, I’d love to give it a try!
But will it actually save the content as it is? When I had a Boxee Cloud DVR, the recordings were further compressed for storage in the cloud. And it also only stored the audio as stereo. So 5.1 shows only played back in 2.0
Also no Boxee ability to pause live TV… that was kind of a deal breaker for me.
Done right this could be very expensive on the providers end. Done wrong this could sour people on cloud dvr’s. In order to do this right you are going need a company with scale say Amazon or Microsoft. Cord cutters are going to hate the monthly fee’s and/ or advertising. And what happens if Simple goes broke? And then there is the usual streaming problems. I think we’ll see this version of a cloud dvr on the tech trash heap next to Google Tv.
And there I thought Simple.TV had disappeared. Interested to see if they can get this back in the US. Cloud DVR is still a viable idea.
If you have FiOS ~fast, with no caps~ maybe it’s viable. Boxee’s Cloud DVR wasn’t very good…
“If you have FiOS ~fast, with no caps~ maybe it’s viable.”
Of course, the mostly highly urbanized markets that FIOS chose to cherry pick have major overlap with the markets that don’t get decent OTA. There’s a reason Aereo launched in NYC, for example.
And more broadly, last I checked the percentage of all households in the US that don’t get decent OTA is around a third…
—–
If anyone is going to pull something like this off, it’s going to be that outfit that recently won a district court case to offer OTT broadcast retransmission by paying some FCC-set fee for broadcast retransmission that is much lower than the MSO negotiated fees run.
I’ll go a step further and say the one outfit than can pull it off is based in Cupertino and currently negotiating with the local broadcasters…
“I’ll go a step further and say the one outfit than can pull it off is based in Cupertino and currently negotiating with the local broadcasters…”
Of course, by negotiating with the local broadcasters, as well as the networks and their other properties, Cupertino wouldn’t be eligible for that mandated FCC set much lower rate for retransmission.
So Cupertino can keep negotiating to pay $30/month for something the rights’ holders want $60+ for until the cows come home, (not to mention negotiating with companies that fear Cupertino far more than any other company), and it’ll keep you and Gene Munster entertained for years! It’s a better diversion than teevee! It’s win-win!
It’s always 2001 in the halls of Cupertino, and every industry is the music industry…
(This is still the future.)
BREAKING: Steve Jobs momentarily comes back from the dead to call HEVC licensing a big bag of hurt. Pope expresses confusion as to whether the hand of god or the devil is responsible.
British bookies open bets on whether the Apple Car or Apple 4K will be released first.