Tech Guru Matt Richardson gives an overview of how Aereo works.
According to a forbes.com story, Aereo is based on a very
simple idea: That over-the-air television, the kind one can get from a regular
TV antenna, can be made available over the Internet. Based on that premise, the
company built out data centers with small antennas that could capture TV signal
off the air and redistribute them over the internet.
And best of all, it’s perfectly legal: the company found an
interesting loophole in the way the TV business model currently works: The
broadcast networks receive broadcasting licenses from the FCC, allowing them to
send their signal out over the air to millions of customers. Then cable and
satellite TV came along and were required to carry those broadcast channels too.
Enter Aereo with a new model that take viewers and moves
them from a TV screen to tablet and phone screens. The company went to great
pain to design a system that would meet all the legal requirements of an
existing over the air TV receiver. And
Aereo is taking existing signal from the affiliates, without having to pay the
broadcast networks.
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