My guess is that the Supreme Court will be skeptical, because it looks too much like an attempt to get around streaming rules with a sham antenna that exists solely to get around streaming rules. I'm not that confident in that prediction, but I would be more surprised if they win than the reverse.
Another company that could in theory do something like that is Netflix. Currently they have streaming rights to a certain set of films, but they can rent you physical DVDs of a larger set of films. Could they eliminate that gap by setting up a "remote DVD viewing experience" service for the remainder? For the films where they have the streaming rights, they stream directly. For the films where they don't, they simply robo-insert the DVD into a player, hit play, and stream the output to you... which amounts to streaming video of the film, just with some robotic shuffling of DVDs to give it legal cover. My guess is this wouldn't fly either, but it's hard to say for sure.
There was a company that did remote DVD streaming, exactly in the fashion and with the intent you describe. They lost on court [1] with a $1.8m payout.
Interesting, I forgot about them. It looks like that case was never really resolved legally, though. They lost one injunction in a District Court, and then shut down, so the underlying issues weren't fully litigated (and not considered by higher courts).
No, they settled out-of-court and shut down after a preliminary injunction by a district court that effectively bankrupted them. There's no precedent there, and no hint of what the result of an appeal would have been.
Another company that could in theory do something like that is Netflix. Currently they have streaming rights to a certain set of films, but they can rent you physical DVDs of a larger set of films. Could they eliminate that gap by setting up a "remote DVD viewing experience" service for the remainder? For the films where they have the streaming rights, they stream directly. For the films where they don't, they simply robo-insert the DVD into a player, hit play, and stream the output to you... which amounts to streaming video of the film, just with some robotic shuffling of DVDs to give it legal cover. My guess is this wouldn't fly either, but it's hard to say for sure.