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yipee yahoo

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Jan 19, 2004, 4:38:30 AM1/19/04

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Don't know myself, but, as soon as U have figured all this technical
stuff out, let me know ;-) -- would love to get live American
television programming over the internet......

Guess like all excellent things, they come to those who
wait...........

& wait

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"Barry Fawthrop" <ba...@ttienterprises.org> wrote in message news:<C2IOb.36449$873.8...@twister.tampabay.rr.com>...
> Greetings
>
> Can anyone please enlighten me.
>
> Firstly, once one has a digital video footage, that one can stream out
> over the Internet, using a broadcaster and Streaming Server, what other
> equipment does one require to convert this into
> (a) a terrestrial/antenna signal (good old normal TV station) . and
> (b) a cable channel, that can be incorporated into a cable companies
> cable system to be received as a cable channel?
>
>
> What equipment and process is used to convert a terrestrial/antenna
> TV broadcast signal into a cable channel?
> Or: a TV station creates a broadcast feed and broadcasts this using an
> antenna, controlled by the FCC assigned frequency, that they may
> broadcast on, this is then received, by a cable company which does
> ?????? to the signal and places it on the cable as a cable channel for
> all home viewers, to now watch the TV broacast?
>
>
> Is it possible, that on the same cable (that we all receive TV signals
> IN on) to watch TV say at home, that one can send back OUT a TV
> signal to be broadcast, and if so using what equipment, and how would
> one go about checking if the local cable company will assist?
>
>
> Sorry for the simple questions, but I'm trying to understand the convential
> broadcast method and how that differs from a webcast broadcast.
>
> Thanks in advance

tcith

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Jan 19, 2004, 4:57:06 AM1/19/04

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> > Sorry for the simple questions, but I'm trying to understand the
convential
> > broadcast method and how that differs from a webcast broadcast.

the main difference is bandwidth

cable company has 100% control of their infrastructure
a web/internet broadcast has only a fraction of the resources available and
goes over infrastructure that they have no control over

oH Ho

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Jan 19, 2004, 4:59:08 AM1/19/04

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Oh its easy to get tv into a stream, connect an aerial to a tv card in a
computer and run Helix Encoder or Windows Media Encoder, the problem is, you
need a LOT of bandwidth and bandwidth costs $$$, also the TV channels like
to sue people who do stream their content over the net when they find out
about it :) so that's why it's not really happening on a big scale. If you
have a friend in North America though, he/she could stream to a few people
and that'd be fine, it's what I do...

dum dee doo dee...
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Barry Fawthrop

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Jan 19, 2004, 8:40:06 AM1/19/04

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Just what I can't understand.
Why is it so easy to go from TV to webcast signals,
yet NOT from webcast to TV signal, obviously with the cable
companies permission and an FCC license.

Yes a TV signal uses 5 MHz bandwidth, and internet bandwidth does
cost $$$$, so I foresee two alternatives (1) multicasting the webcast signal
(2) converting the signal to a std TV channel, and streaming it direct to a
cable
company.

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Matthew Cook

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Jan 20, 2004, 2:52:11 AM1/20/04

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Barry Fawthrop wrote:
> Just what I can't understand.
> Why is it so easy to go from TV to webcast signals,
> yet NOT from webcast to TV signal,

That's easier. You just need a grahpics card with TV out.

> obviously with the cable
> companies permission and an FCC license.

And that's something quite different, and nearly as hard as legally putting
TV signals over the net.