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I was wondering, is it possible to use LTE Broadcast to transmit regular TV programming?

You would need something like multicast to carry the live programming to many subscribers within a finite amount of spectrum. On demand, such as Netflix, would still be unicast and certainly unable to scale to the number of customers needed to make the programming fees reasonable.

 

Those who are more knowledgeable with RF may be able to provide more meaningful insight, but I would expect that it would need a very large number of picocells in a neighborhood to make this work.

 

To take this to an extreme, If you think of the new sports stadiums, they blanket the area with hundreds (thousands?) of low power wifi access points to provide the density to stream all of that video. It wouldn't be to that extent as neighborhoods are less dense, of course, but the problems are similar.

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There aren't much vod going on for your tv box. It should be able to multicast. I am not sure how many channel can it carry. But at least EBS will be used for what it was designed for

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