Aereo: A New Cable Provider?
Fresh and interesting article posted on TechCrunch about Aereo's new plan to become a cable provider. As a reminder, Aereo was se l ling a serv ice that allows its subscribers to watch television program s over the Internet a t about the same time as the prog rams are broadcast over the air. The system was made up of servers, transcoders, and thousands o f micro antennas housed in a central warehouse.Unlike video-on-demand services, such as Netflix, Aereo does not provide a prearranged assortment of movies and TV s hows ; it only trans mitted specific programs selected by the user. Happy Reading! "When Aereo was deemed illegal by the Supreme Court and paused its service last month , it seemed as if the TV streaming service was out of options. But on Wednesday, Aereo lawyers filed a letter with a New York district court indicating that the company now considers itself a cable provider. It now believes that it should not have to stop its ...