Chinese television satellite fails to deploy, millions disappointed

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Phil @ Nov 29th 2006 5:36PM

Crying "xenophobia" over a little friendly jabbing seems a bit extreme.

But the Chinese have this idea right, they just need better implementation. Imagine if the United States government sponsored a similar satellite network. They could license the spectrum usage just like they do with other radio technologies and:

1. No more price gouging by cable companies and DirectTV and DishNet.

2. TV (and set top box) manufacturers would have a single standard to build into devices sold in the USA, and this would encourage incredible competition, consumer choice, and job creation while a much larger number of device manufacturers would get in the game.

3. No more bull$hit CableCard or needing receivers/cableboxes in each room, because some enterprising company would make a set-top box that would just boost the signal through the whole house over existing coax, and leave it to the TVs in each room to convert the signal. Media center usage would increase.

4. Pay channels and pay-per-view would still function (and have a much larger market) if the standard was well-made, but we wouldn't have to pay extra to get channels like Animal Planet which are routinely being moved off basic services into premium services despite their advertising revenue models.

5. A single standard for satellite HD broadcast.

6. I'm sure there is more.

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