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Tablet Television aims to be broadcasters’ go-to weapon against Aereo
Wednesday April 09th 2014Seemingly just in time to save the day, the relatively low-key Tablet Television is poising itself to be the hero that broadcast networks need to deflate the ever-expanding Aereo. The project is a joint venture between Granite Broadcasting and the U.K.-based Motive Television that aims to let people watch locally broadcast television on their mobile devices. Tablet Television is slated for a summertime beta test in the San Francisco market and a tentative autumn roll-out, according to a press release.
If all goes according to plan, Tablet TV (as it’s also known) will involve a portable ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) tuner with a Wi-Fi transponder that can, via Tablet TV’s app, send over-the-air broadcast signals to mobile devices. It can also receive a datacasting stream embedded in the ATSC signal, which Tablet TV plans to use for support of a still-in-development video on-demand service. Consumers sign up and then receive a “kit,” with the tuner device and the necessary appwhich Tablet TV says will cost less than $100, and contain the tuner device and the necessary app. Consumers wouldn’t pay for the basic over-the-air content but, once developed, the VOD service will require payments via either subscription and/or pay-per-view methods.
The inclusion of the embedded signal is the difference that makes Tablet TV legitimate (and cheaply implemented), as opposed to Aereo’s alleged illegality.
On the other hand, broadcasters who decide to join forces with Tablet TV are expected to market the service on their own, in addition to making bandwidth available for the datacast-streamed VOD service. And for all of this, Tablet TV promises some coin: its broadcasters-in-arms will receive co-op marketing payments, a cut of the VOD profits, and – perhaps the central cash cow – incremental advertising revenue as the service’s audience base expands.
It’s not entirely clear at this point whether customers will be able to use Roku, Chromecast or other related tools to move content from their tablets to larger viewing devices, but we’ve reached out to Tablet TV and will update this article as we gather more information.
Source: Digital Trends
Front Page, Industry News
Tablet Television aims to be broadcasters’ go-to weapon against Aereo
Wednesday April 09th 2014Seemingly just in time to save the day, the relatively low-key Tablet Television is poising itself to be the hero that broadcast networks need to deflate the ever-expanding Aereo. The project is a joint venture between Granite Broadcasting and the U.K.-based Motive Television that aims to let people watch locally broadcast television on their mobile devices. Tablet Television is slated for a summertime beta test in the San Francisco market and a tentative autumn roll-out, according to a press release.
If all goes according to plan, Tablet TV (as it’s also known) will involve a portable ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) tuner with a Wi-Fi transponder that can, via Tablet TV’s app, send over-the-air broadcast signals to mobile devices. It can also receive a datacasting stream embedded in the ATSC signal, which Tablet TV plans to use for support of a still-in-development video on-demand service. Consumers sign up and then receive a “kit,” with the tuner device and the necessary appwhich Tablet TV says will cost less than $100, and contain the tuner device and the necessary app. Consumers wouldn’t pay for the basic over-the-air content but, once developed, the VOD service will require payments via either subscription and/or pay-per-view methods.
The inclusion of the embedded signal is the difference that makes Tablet TV legitimate (and cheaply implemented), as opposed to Aereo’s alleged illegality.
On the other hand, broadcasters who decide to join forces with Tablet TV are expected to market the service on their own, in addition to making bandwidth available for the datacast-streamed VOD service. And for all of this, Tablet TV promises some coin: its broadcasters-in-arms will receive co-op marketing payments, a cut of the VOD profits, and – perhaps the central cash cow – incremental advertising revenue as the service’s audience base expands.
It’s not entirely clear at this point whether customers will be able to use Roku, Chromecast or other related tools to move content from their tablets to larger viewing devices, but we’ve reached out to Tablet TV and will update this article as we gather more information.
Source: Digital Trends
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Front Page, Industry News
Tablet Television aims to be broadcasters’ go-to weapon against Aereo
Wednesday April 09th 2014Seemingly just in time to save the day, the relatively low-key Tablet Television is poising itself to be the hero that broadcast networks need to deflate the ever-expanding Aereo. The project is a joint venture between Granite Broadcasting and the U.K.-based Motive Television that aims to let people watch locally broadcast television on their mobile devices. Tablet Television is slated for a summertime beta test in the San Francisco market and a tentative autumn roll-out, according to a press release.
If all goes according to plan, Tablet TV (as it’s also known) will involve a portable ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) tuner with a Wi-Fi transponder that can, via Tablet TV’s app, send over-the-air broadcast signals to mobile devices. It can also receive a datacasting stream embedded in the ATSC signal, which Tablet TV plans to use for support of a still-in-development video on-demand service. Consumers sign up and then receive a “kit,” with the tuner device and the necessary appwhich Tablet TV says will cost less than $100, and contain the tuner device and the necessary app. Consumers wouldn’t pay for the basic over-the-air content but, once developed, the VOD service will require payments via either subscription and/or pay-per-view methods.
The inclusion of the embedded signal is the difference that makes Tablet TV legitimate (and cheaply implemented), as opposed to Aereo’s alleged illegality.
On the other hand, broadcasters who decide to join forces with Tablet TV are expected to market the service on their own, in addition to making bandwidth available for the datacast-streamed VOD service. And for all of this, Tablet TV promises some coin: its broadcasters-in-arms will receive co-op marketing payments, a cut of the VOD profits, and – perhaps the central cash cow – incremental advertising revenue as the service’s audience base expands.
It’s not entirely clear at this point whether customers will be able to use Roku, Chromecast or other related tools to move content from their tablets to larger viewing devices, but we’ve reached out to Tablet TV and will update this article as we gather more information.
Source: Digital Trends
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