I wonder how much this is costing them.
Why not axe this? How much money would they stand to save this way?
Why not axe this? How much money would they stand to save this way?
That would be a MAJOR can of worms...I can imagine those minivan owners who bought this screaming at their dealerships that something broke.
Not only would it save money, it would save precious bandwidth. They need to scrap Backseat TV ASAP.
I could be mistaken, but aren't Sirius Radio and Sirius Backseat TV two seperate bandwidths?
Backseat TV is an obvious failure which is wasting bandwidth better used for audio programming (regardless of how it's encoded), and it should be terminated.
I have backseat tv in my truck and my kids love it.
If they pulled the plug on it there would probably be a lawsuit over it because of the cost of the equipment.
I will say one thing since getting and activating Sirius Backseat TV, I have never been charged for the television service. I have called Sirius a few times and have even been asked how I like it by CSR's so they know I have it (and they are the ones who turned it on) yet again for some reason they are not charging me for the service.
well they could always drop the content quality to the point where people start voluntarily canceling Backseat TV. Maybe air the channels at 160x120 (even 80x60?) resolution at 8-15 frames per second, mono audio, compress the hell out of it (and reuse the saved bandwidth for the music channels) -- make the user experience so miserable that people don't want to have it anymore.This is true, unless they have sold so few of them that they just buy back the equipment. Though I am sure they have a contract with Chrysler, so that of course is very unlikely to happen. Mainly just me rambling because I have never really thought they should get into video.
well they could always drop the content quality to the point where people start voluntarily canceling Backseat TV. Maybe air the channels at 160x120 (even 80x60?) resolution at 8-15 frames per second, mono audio, compress the hell out of it (and reuse the saved bandwidth for the music channels) -- make the user experience so miserable that people don't want to have it anymore.
I have backseat tv in my truck and my kids love it.
If they pulled the plug on it there would probably be a lawsuit over it because of the cost of the equipment.
I will say one thing since getting and activating Sirius Backseat TV, I have never been charged for the television service. I have called Sirius a few times and have even been asked how I like it by CSR's so they know I have it (and they are the ones who turned it on) yet again for some reason they are not charging me for the service.