Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Is this thing patentable?
?About 25 years ago or so, Videotron, a cable company in Quebec, was at the forefront of sports viewing technology, offering the cable watcher the option to watch games in multiple angles, by using the viewer's remote control. Did they get a patent on that? I don't know.
These guys are claiming a patent on delivering different angles of viewing, delivered to a hand-held device:
covering the wireless delivery of sports and entertainment video and data from stadiums and concert arenas to mobile hand held devices
Is this a novel idea, or is it just an obvious idea? Since Videotron offered it to the viewer, through their remote control, but sitting at home, it would seem an obvious thing that Videotron (or companies like it, such as MLBAM) would offer the option to the viewer sitting wherever they happen to be.
The company noted above seemed to have made some deal with Kangaroo Media, which also is suing others. I'm having a hard time keeping up with who invented what at this point.
I'm pretty sure all of this was invented by the writers of Star Trek anyway.
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