TV broadcasters start fighting wireless networks
The rich television industry is increasingly positioning itself as the most important enemy of the Internet, network technologies and scientific and technological progress.
The day before yesterday, the Association of American Broadcasters announced the launch of a large-scale campaign to influence the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prevent wireless Internet devices from transmitting data in the so-called "white" part of the spectrum that is used for television broadcasting. It must be said that plans to use such technologies were announced by Microsoft, Google, Intel, HP and other influential IT companies. However, broadcasters are not at all inferior to “computer scientists” in the art of lobbying, so it is difficult to predict the outcome of this case.
As part of the “anti-computer campaign,” broadcasters will launch a series of social advertising on TV, as well as order a number of publications in the influential press. In addition, a letter will be sent to the FCC with a detailed explanation of why data transmission over digital TV signal impairs the quality of the tele-receiver.
At the same time, HP and other companies have already started testing prototypes of devices operating in the “white” part of the spectrum. It is assumed that the data transmission is carried out in those periods when the broadcast is free, but the first tests showed that the prototypes are not working correctly and sometimes cause interference. The developers claim that they can fix all the problems. TV broadcasters say that even the most ideal technologies cannot guarantee the absence of interference in the future, because poor-quality Chinese fakes and other non-certified devices may appear on the market. “If our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft can put up with system errors, computer glitches and connection losses, then we cannot afford that,” said the chairman of the Association of American Broadcasters.
The day before yesterday, the Association of American Broadcasters announced the launch of a large-scale campaign to influence the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prevent wireless Internet devices from transmitting data in the so-called "white" part of the spectrum that is used for television broadcasting. It must be said that plans to use such technologies were announced by Microsoft, Google, Intel, HP and other influential IT companies. However, broadcasters are not at all inferior to “computer scientists” in the art of lobbying, so it is difficult to predict the outcome of this case.
As part of the “anti-computer campaign,” broadcasters will launch a series of social advertising on TV, as well as order a number of publications in the influential press. In addition, a letter will be sent to the FCC with a detailed explanation of why data transmission over digital TV signal impairs the quality of the tele-receiver.
At the same time, HP and other companies have already started testing prototypes of devices operating in the “white” part of the spectrum. It is assumed that the data transmission is carried out in those periods when the broadcast is free, but the first tests showed that the prototypes are not working correctly and sometimes cause interference. The developers claim that they can fix all the problems. TV broadcasters say that even the most ideal technologies cannot guarantee the absence of interference in the future, because poor-quality Chinese fakes and other non-certified devices may appear on the market. “If our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft can put up with system errors, computer glitches and connection losses, then we cannot afford that,” said the chairman of the Association of American Broadcasters.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/14019/
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