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I understand the time and space restriction of sending live streaming video through the net. But how about the encrypted signal right from the satellite dish. Then this information would be decrypted for the satellite receiver of the licensed end user
This would provide satellite services to people who don't have a clean window of the sky and are bound to the cable company monopoly!
I don't think this would affect any present patents, from what I have read so far.
We would not be stealing signal, but rerouting it "encrypted" through the internet to people who pay and subscribe to the service but have no way of getting it because of obstacles in the way of having a dish .

Any thoughts,
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I have seen devices for distributing the entire satellite IF over fiber optic and
coax cable where the receivers are a distance from the dish. Ideal for
high price wooded developments.

Small USA cable companies can do this through their backbone using Digicypher II compatible equipment.

http://www.tonercable.com/Product.aspx?ID=450

Other systems decode the video and then stream it using very high speed
neighborhood switches.

http://www.tonercable.com/Files/Product ... T-IPME.pdf

set top boxes such as AMINO mentioned many times in this forum are used
to accees the streams.

A few years ago I suggested to a condo association a Satellite array and a distributed cable network with a fiber optics line and a Cisco router that took up 2 channels on the cable network. There were 140 subscribers in the association at $35.00 per month for cable TV service and Internet access. The cost of the equipment was about $75k on a 2 year SBA loan. The whole thing washed in 2 years. Most of the time in setting up the system was working out what subscription services were wanted by the users.

I don't see any reason HD services with Internet access couldn't be done today in the same way for under $100k and wash in 2.5 to 3 years. Today with DOCSIS 3 you could even provide Telephone services. The Cisco router had a provision for a server so a privet email or FTP system could also be setup.