We gave up Channel 55 (and a lot of TV spectrum) for this?

[rockmanac]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/04/flo-tv-killed-by-qualcomm-its-four-users-look-shocked-and-sadde/

FLO TV killed by Qualcomm, its four users look shocked and saddened

We'd heard from a couple of internal sources on Friday that Qualcomm was pulling the plug on the ill-fated FLO TV direct-to-consumer service, and now we've reason to believe that the deed is in fact done.

[Deep Thought]

They bought channel 55...actually paid the NTSC stations on the channel to convert early. It was a bad business model though...who wants to pay another $15/mo to watch TV on a proprietary device that costs another $200...and isn't in every market?

The spectrum itself is worth far more than the business they were trying to do on it, and Qualcomm is not a programmer anyway.

[NECRAT]

The idea behind it is good, but everything Mark said is dead on accurate.

They spent a TON of money on the infastructure. Hopefully someone is able to expand on it, using a better buisness model (Hopefull Verizon and not at&t)

[eadler]

Hopefully someone convinces them to allow Channel 55 for wireless mics.... Seriously, they think 12 wireless mic channels in each market is enough? I remember having discussions with the campus folks back in college about wireless mics and how much of a headache it was to coordinate them then... I doubt they could deal with 30 channels yet alone 12.