[mythtv-users] IPTV issues with AES streams

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:14:25 -0400, you wrote:

>I'm a few messages behind on this thread.  I hope you will indulge
>me...
>
>On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 08:53 +1200, OpenMedia Support wrote:
>> > On 16/04/2020 12:43, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> > 
>> > > On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 18:38 +1200, OpenMedia Support wrote:
>> > > > We've not got a wide range of IPTV streams available here in
>> > > > NZ, most
>> > > > of
>> > > > which work with the updated IPTV code in MythTV 31.
>
>I'm in North America -- home of the super-narrow-cable-TV-silo market
>where you have to buy/rent cable boxes from your cableco because
>everything between them and the cableco is proprietary/encrypted/etc.,
>to maximize the amount of blood the cablecos can extract.
>
>So this idea of "open" IPTV is a bit foreign to me.
>
>Just so I understand, these are unencrypted, unauthenticated IPTV
>streams that anyone can fetch and watch?  I.e. given that you are
>expecting MythTV to be able to watch/record, I assume given the venue
>here.
>
>If so, what's the business model?  Why are your TV networks being so
>open?
>
>Cheers,
>b.

It is the same model as free-to-air broadcast via the radio spectrum -
the streams carry advertising.