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[Pete Erskine]

http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/special_report_the_state_of_production_audio_wireless/live

[Justice C. Bigler]

So, basically, we're fucked. The government has been paid off by big business and doesn't care. And it's going to be all but impossible for all but the most highly trained experts to operate RF mics with anything but the most expensive of equipment, which most artists and producers won't be willing to pay for.

[Pete Erskine]

[quote author=Justice C. Bigler And it's going to be all but impossible for all but the most highly trained experts to operate RF mics with anything but the most expensive of equipment, which most artists and producers won't be willing to pay for.
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Many thanks to the FCC for the extra work opportunities.

[Tim McCulloch]

Pretty much, Justice, we're screwed because the public has an appetite for watching streaming video on tiny screens.  People aren't downloading 300MB apps to their portable devices, they're watching TV.

The reason it got this far is because Congress (you know, those geniuses the public keeps electing) mandated the FCC make money for the treasury.  And there is no reason to think reallocation will grind to a halt at 600mHz.

I won't get into the relative value of over the air broadcast TV (there IS an antenna in my attic), but I think selling off 2/3 of the broadcast spectrum and leaving us without legacy operation is bad.  But the technology pimps, content "creators" and the big businesses that own the distribution means (spectrum) don't give a rat's ass about our paltry industry because their actual content creators are protected.

[Tim McCulloch]

[quote author=Justice C. Bigler And it's going to be all but impossible for all but the most highly trained experts to operate RF mics with anything but the most expensive of equipment, which most artists and producers won't be willing to pay for.


Many thanks to the FCC for the extra work opportunities.

We love you too, Pete.

[TJ (Tom) Cornish]

So, basically, we're fucked. The government has been paid off by big business and doesn't care. And it's going to be all but impossible for all but the most highly trained experts to operate RF mics with anything but the most expensive of equipment, which most artists and producers won't be willing to pay for.

While I'm as frustrated as anyone that my investment in analog RF is going to have an accelerated depreciation cycle, I will say that needing 300Mhz of bandwidth to run a couple dozen channels of RF with a total throughput of a few megabits per second is ridiculous.  The 1960's RF technology that is still "state of the art" needs to change.  Hopefully this necessity will mother lots of invention from folks in the RF industry.

[Tim McCulloch]

While I'm as frustrated as anyone that my investment in analog RF is going to have an accelerated depreciation cycle, I will say that needing 300Mhz of bandwidth to run a couple dozen channels of RF with a total throughput of a few megabits per second is ridiculous.  The 1960's RF technology that is still "state of the art" needs to change.  Hopefully this necessity will mother lots of invention from folks in the RF industry.

The deep pockets of the distribution industry or the FCC should be required to mitigate damages caused by the auction.  The idea that we're mostly illegal carpetbaggers in the TV spectrum doesn't make us any less victims, just victims without legal standing.

[Jason Glass]

While I'm as frustrated as anyone that my investment in analog RF is going to have an accelerated depreciation cycle, I will say that needing 300Mhz of bandwidth to run a couple dozen channels of RF with a total throughput of a few megabits per second is ridiculous.  The 1960's RF technology that is still "state of the art" needs to change.  Hopefully this necessity will mother lots of invention from folks in the RF industry.

A couple of dozen channels of very high quality RF, using today's industry-standard equipment, is easily achievable within 18MHz of clear bandwidth.  The operative word being clear.  Because the commission doesn't see fit to reserve a truly exclusive band of reasonable size and consistent frequencies across the nation for our industry, we must share bandwidth with primary broadcasters and myriad other secondary consumers, so we require the extra bandwidth to work around them.

BTW, this chipping away will never end as long as the commission feels that the public's hunger for this stupid, bandwidth-eating crap http://www.yahoo.com/tech/how-to-use-jelly-a-buzzy-new-app-that-gives-advice-on-73225400494.html is more important to our nation than reliable wireless for content creation.  Do you really need to attach a 500Kb photo of a coffee cup to 100b of text in order to ask where the nearest coffee shop is located?  NO, YOU DON'T.

Tim,

Part of the TVBD rulings included clarifying Part 15 users (pro audio) as legal secondary operators in the TV bands.

[Thomas Lamb]

So when might we find out where the new acceptable 12mhz space will be (replacement for ch 37) I need to purchase 12ch of mics and 8 ch of microphones VERRY soon! They need to work in a biulding along with 16 other ch of mics and 6ch of iem (which I'm sure will need to be replaced) as well. How do you make the best decision at this time?

[Jerome Malsack]

Don't forget that in that conference center and university setting you will be competing for those same channels to use in their productions.   I even found myself competing with constructions crews and possibly crane operators.   

The FCC and Congress most likely believe that the OTA TV space is less and less needed by the public because people are on cable or fiber for computer, telephone, and video access.  With the fewer numbers in the rural area being able to be heard above the urban areas and the deep pocket developers it is unlikely we will be able to make any difference. 

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