NFL Negotiating New TV Deals
PostPosted:3 years 2 months ago
Hacksaw wrote:DirecTV and Dish's days are numbered anyway. Can't deliver 5K through the air. Technology is going to do them in unless they adapt. ATT is already on it. Dishes are going to be a thing of the past sooner or not much later.
Satellite technology will never go away, but satellite STB will be limited to rural areas that are not serviced by fiber optic cables or 5G wireless (which has a VERY SMALL RANGE - at least right now).
It’s funny that you say 5G can’t deliver through the air.... it’s literally digital radio... but I know that you mean from space. It’s already amazing that small dish technology works as well as it does. If you ever want your mind bent read up on quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation, and Viterbi forward error correction (FEC). Some people smarter than me thought this stuff up - it was hard enough just to learn it.
Today, fiber optic cables provide the highest speed and best MTBF. The only current 5G that can compete on download speed with my gigabit cable modem is Verizon, and that is only in limited cities, and the more users sign up the slower it will get due to back haul limitations.
With all of the investments in content rights and network upgrades it is very safe to say that accessing the NFL won’t get cheaper. Hopefully it will get better - but we will see.