Not sure if I entire understand what you're saying.
Do you mean to suggest this would work well for digital video broadcasting (or equivalent to it)?
If so, this is what I have been theorizing as a potential future step for Starlink. Once they get the hardware costs down or offer basic versions that are good enough to receive a multicast signal and limited uplink (basic stuff like authentication, etc), they could start providing an equivalent to DirectTV or Cable TV.
I'm making the assumption that multi-casting a set of entertainment channels would be relatively inexpensive, and putting aside the question about the value of non-on-demand content for the moment...
This would create competition for incumbents and more options for the consumer.
Perhaps more importantly for Musk, this would give him the ability to create a media platform that won't be inhibited/constrained/censored by what he and his peers refer to as "legacy media". His recent actions/behavior (twitter, disney lawsuit/buyout, Murdoch/Tucker/Fox relationships, etc) suggest to me that this is his plan.
Whether or not you like him or think he and his companies deserve it, it's pretty obvious that they are being targeted by big-media and politicians, and constantly criticized and attacked. Antisemitism, Tesla shorting and "recall" news 24/7 , bankrupting Twitter, Starship failures, and so on...
He has FU money and it's obviously personal to him (Disney lawsuit), so why not?
Do you mean to suggest this would work well for digital video broadcasting (or equivalent to it)?
If so, this is what I have been theorizing as a potential future step for Starlink. Once they get the hardware costs down or offer basic versions that are good enough to receive a multicast signal and limited uplink (basic stuff like authentication, etc), they could start providing an equivalent to DirectTV or Cable TV.
I'm making the assumption that multi-casting a set of entertainment channels would be relatively inexpensive, and putting aside the question about the value of non-on-demand content for the moment...
This would create competition for incumbents and more options for the consumer.
Perhaps more importantly for Musk, this would give him the ability to create a media platform that won't be inhibited/constrained/censored by what he and his peers refer to as "legacy media". His recent actions/behavior (twitter, disney lawsuit/buyout, Murdoch/Tucker/Fox relationships, etc) suggest to me that this is his plan.
Whether or not you like him or think he and his companies deserve it, it's pretty obvious that they are being targeted by big-media and politicians, and constantly criticized and attacked. Antisemitism, Tesla shorting and "recall" news 24/7 , bankrupting Twitter, Starship failures, and so on...
He has FU money and it's obviously personal to him (Disney lawsuit), so why not?