[GraceG]

Now comes Aereo with a mini-antenna that allows the reception of free, over-the-air broadcasts to anyone with an Internet connection and $8 a month for a subscription fee.

BullShiite , It is NOT an “mini-antenna” it is USB flash drive with software and a “Unlocking key” on it. If you have no internet you get no programming, it is nothing more than Roku without the box and that requires a regula PC.

[LibLieSlayer]

Digital TV can suck as far as over the air reception is concerned. The culprit can be rain, wind blowing leaves on trees and raindrops scattering the signal causing a phenomenon called “multi-pathing”... where the primary signal is received and a few milliseconds later the same signal is received but from a slightly different path to the antenna... and the digital chipsets cannot hold lock on the signal and you get tiling and the truncated audio that we all hate so much.

At least in the analog world, weak signals could be watched that were just above the noise floor. Multi-pathing in the analog world only caused ghost signals on the video or an outline of a double picture... offset from the fundemental picture by a small amount... but we could listen to the audio and watch the video through some "snow". Any reception by using the Internet is not over the air nor is it any different than any other online content delivered by many of today's Satellite or Cable channels.

LLS

[MississippiMan]

Yeah, it's kinda Roku-ish except for the fact that it brings you major networks, something no other streaming service has done so far. The natural evolution is for an Aereo channel to show up on Roku. :)


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[dangus]

That’s right. It’s exploiting a loophole in the so-called “piracy” laws that say that TiVo-like devices that have antennae built in follow broadcasting laws, not Cable-TV laws. So they stuck non-functional antennae on a USB drive to make recording cable TV legal.

[dangerdoc]

The mini antenna is at their site, they then digitally stream it to your device. The value would be to someone living in an apartment with high speed internet and no good antenna reception.

The fight is the question of whether they had the right to stream copywrited programming that they do not own or have the license to stream.