[M4IF Discuss] hourly usage fee for MPEG4

[Ken Goldsholl]

Ben,
The $30/yr over 3 years is $90, which would be more than half the cost of IP
STBs in a year or two.  I expect them to be under $200 sometime this year,
and you know how the prices of electronics products keeps going down.
MPEG4 can increase the capacity of cable and other broadband networks, but
so do other technologies that are paid for when the equipment is purchased.
I still haven't heard the rationale for just one particular technology
deserving a recurring revenue stream for its use.  The microprocessor in my
computer probably consumed billions of dollars in development costs, as did
alot of the software I use, but I still only pay once for the continued use
of all these products.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Waggoner" <ben   interframemedia.com>
To: <discuss   lists.m4if.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2024 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [M4IF Discuss] hourly usage fee for MPEG4
> Ken,
>
>     The question is whether or not content providers get more than
> $0.02/hour out of using MPEG-4 instead of alternative technologies.
>
>     Take, for example, digital cable and satellite companies.  If MPEG-4
> allows them to double their number of channels, it'll let them add a lot
of
> revenue, by increasing the number of channels and pay-per-view orders they
> get.  If it allows them to save money in set top boxes by using commodity
> chips, that can also add up quickly ($30/year is less than the real cost
of
> modern digital STBs).
>
>     If MPEG-4 can't provide that kind of value, it isn't going to work one
> way or the other.
>
>     Also, content providers are going to make sure they aren't charged for
> all the time the box is on, through some mechanism or another (e.g., not
> counting any content viewed if the remote control hasn't been used in two
> hours).
>
>
> Ben Waggoner
> Interframe Media <http://www.interframemedia.com>
> Digital Video Compression Consulting, Training, and Encoding
>
>
>

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