[mythtvnz] Technisat Skystar2 DVB-S card pricing for NZ market

[Open Media Support]

> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:22 +1200, Open Media Support wrote:
>> > But I am still picking it'll be FTV, not FTA. They'll want to honor
>> the
>> > regional nature of their rights (ie, they hold the rights for NZ, no=
t
>> > merely anyone in the footprint with a large enough dish).
>>
>> How do you define the difference between FTA and FTV
>
> FTA is Free To Air - unencrypted in other words.
>
> FTV is Free To View - encrypted, but a very low threshold to decrypt,
> usually one-off cost for a viewing card and an off-the-shelf CAM.
>
> FTV is probably most widely used in Europe, lots of different countries
> in the footprint and rights are per-country. But it's used outside ther=
e
> as well, for example Aurora services on Optus B3 and C1.

Ok I was assuming this anyway. Yes we have to hope they go for an open CA=
M
rather than leverage SKY. Although that will mean two set top boxes for
Sky users unless they can double key their feeds.

I should have access to all of the Technisat kit so once we know what CAM
they are going to use we should be OK.

I'm betting on FTA as the spot beams are reasonably tight on NZ. Why
bother with encrypting apart from attempting to regionalise content. The
current triple feed from TVNZ is a major waste of bandwidth.

>> > Someone actually needs to spell this out soon, before the wrong
>> > decisions are made on purchasing. If there are TVNZ/CanWest/BCL peop=
le
>> > lurking here, _please_ put pressure on the appropriate people to
>> > publically clarify how it will be delivered!
>>
>> I know the TVNZ is being pushed to offer HDTV content by the equipment
>> suppliers.
>
> TVNZ is already pretty much end-to-end HD capable now. OB is another
> matter, but that's not really TVNZ's problem to fix (and Sky have
> already told their OB partners to be HD by end of 2007).

> I hear the local content providers are the ones fighting it, because
> they'd have to upgrade their kit to make more rubbish.. erm.. local TV.

Some recent local shows have been made in HD. SPP (South Pacific Pictures=
)
uses HD these days for shows like Maddigans Quest.

Steve

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