QUOTE (halombobtk @ Jun 15 2019, 03:53 PM)
I guess I just don't understand why any of your patents are important 5-10 years from now, but I have no idea what goes into broadcasting live content, nor how big that market segment even is. I know sports and news are $$$, but won't they eventually retire outdated infrastructure?
Patents last 20 years in the USA.
Our dynamic broadcasting is a digital kind of broadcasting. It's not radio wave broadcasting.
Broadcasting just means "the transmission of programs or information by radio or television." So livestreaming is a type of broadcasting.
As for sports, the rights to broadcasting sport games for professional and college teams is very expensive and generally locked down in exclusivity agreements. There are some apps specializing in it right now, notably ESPN's app, but the subscription fees they charge for access don't cover the cost of licensing the games to begin with, and with limited ability to generate revenue with ads against the streams they aren't very efficient business models. I foresee many of these niche video content apps eventually shutting down as they switch to virtual multi-channel programming distributor apps like Zenither, operating channels like they traditionally have done.
The biggest problem in the space right now is everyone thinking each TV channel should be its own app, and that consumers view their smart phone screens as a channel guide. That's just not how consumers are actually behaving. Consumers do not want a dozen different apps for each type of content they watch, which have entirely different user experiences and subscription billing to manage. They just want one app they can watch anything on. Nothing exists like that right now, but Zenither has the technology to be that one app. We just need to get the content.