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Fate Of Aereo SCOTUS Case May Come Soon

The Supreme Court will get its first chance to decide whether to hear the networks’ case against Aereo on Jan. 10. That’s when the court will meet to decide what cases to hear in 2014, according to the court’s docket. Their decision could be announced as early as the following Monday.

By TVNewsCheck | January 2, 2014 | 12:26 p.m. ET.
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Ellen Samrock says:

January 2, 2014 at 3:32 pm

The link to this story doesn’t work, but I can guess the outcome. The justices will look at the lower court rulings, use the same reasonings and Aereo will win. They’re not engineers and will be clueless to the technical impossibilities of Aereo’s scheme of ‘renting individual tiny antennas to subscribers’ workaround. And this is why Aereo wants this case decided in the Supreme Court. Now if this case was to be decided by a panel of engineers…

    Gregg Palermo says:

    January 2, 2014 at 4:54 pm

    OK, I’ll bite. How is a tiny antenna impossible?

    Angie McClimon says:

    January 2, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    It’s the broadcasters taking it to the Supreme Court. But this is no different than cable was in its infancy. Cable operators still had to get permission to run an OTA channel and they charged. The model has changed slightly but it’s effectively the same. But no court sees it that way.

    Ellen Samrock says:

    January 2, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    To quote one engineer, “tiny pieces of metal separated by tiny distances act as one piece of metal.” Aereo’s farm of hundreds (or thousands) of tiny antennas packed closely together just make it one large receiving antenna–similar to cable.

    Ellen Samrock says:

    January 2, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    The broadcasters may be pushing the Aereo case to SCOTUS but Aereo wants this to happen as well. As Chet Kanojila said, “We want this resolved on the merits rather than through a wasteful war of attrition.” – See more at: http://www.tvtechnology.com/business/0107/aereo-wont-fight-broadcast-supreme-court-appeal/222781#sthash.LK6ENyN5.dpuf

Wagner Pereira says:

January 2, 2014 at 7:04 pm

Tiny antennas are a red herring everyone continues to fall for. The real issue is there a receiver for each sub, just like there were for the Cablevision DVR decision. Tiny antennas acting at one has no bearing in reality. That is no different than a CATV system used in buildings and apartments across America today.