CES Over the Top

I attended my first Consumer Electronics Show this week and decided to focus on HD Radio and Internet-to-television applications.  Shelly Palmer wrote a good synopsis of the latter, upon which I won't try to improve:

... First and foremost is the extraordinary commitment that companies like Sony, Pioneer, LG and Samsung have made to "over the top" (OTT) applications [I would add HP --Dennis]. What is OTT? A television set (usually a flat-panel) that is connected to the public Internet as well as a private content distribution network (CDN) like a cable, satellite or telephone company. It's called OTT because the "data" part of the "video, voice & data" triple play is considered an application that rides "on top" of the existing infrastructure.  ¶  Some people call it "cable bypass," other call it "convergence," no matter what you call it, it is certain to delight some consumers, madden others and truly piss-off the Internet service providers (like cable and telephone companies.) ...

Link:  Media 3.0.  --Dennis (recovering from CES thanks to glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate).

Comments

[700WLW]

HD Radio/IBOC causes adjacent-channel interference and has only 60% the coverage of analog. HD radios require loop and externally mounted dipole antennas, and sales of HD radios are anemic. Consumers are not interested in this joke of a technology, just offering more channels of the same repetitive terrestrial radio garbage !