[opendtv] Re: Distribution outside the bundle
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:25:04 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> That the 1992 Cable Act did not merely allow the broadcast networks
> to gain compensation for content they were making available for free
> over the air. It provided the leverage they needed to build their
> own new cable networks, for which they ALSO received compensation.
Well, okay, but those are two different jobs. I just see the main problem with
all of this being with the monopolistic distribution pipe, not with the
congloms.
> Bull*#*^ - almost every market has access to one cable system and
> two DBS systems.
Which is FAR, FAR less competition than there is among congloms. Most
households, I repeat, only have one choice of cabled MVPD, which they also use
as ISP. Some also have Verizon FiOS, but Verizon called it quits with FiOS
after covering no more than 20 percent of potential households (IIRC). And DBS
may or may not be an option, depending on your circumstances. Plus, the fact
that you also have to subscribe to an ISP makes DBS unattractive for many.
> Yes, it's a hassle to change providers, but the FCC report shows
> clearly that there is a shift away from the legacy cable providers.
For TV content the old fashioned way, perhaps. The reason I mentioned it's a
hassle is to demonstrate how monopolistic the MVPDs expect themselves to be,
and effectively are. Compare this with how easy it is to use different OTT
sites. No comparison at all.
> There will always be a place for live streams, especially for
> sports and news. And it will take years for live streams of
> traditional entertainment programming to become completely
> irrelevant.
Yes, but so what? There are no technical problems carrying live streams, and
ISP networks can use IP multicasting in such cases. As long as there are no
TECHNICAL problems, it's only a matter of time before the congloms do this more
regularly. CBS All Access, for example, already does carry live streams. So you
can't use live streams as an argument against Internet delivery of TV. That
site www.wwitv.com, which I mentioned many times, is crammed full of live
streams.
> The only "new models" of interest to you seem to be those
> that give you access to content you previously did not have
> access to.
And they SHOULD be of interest to you too, for that same reason. I can't fathom
why you are so happily stuck in the mud, Craig. The Internet permits new models
to be created, at along last I might add, breaking apart that local monopoly
distribution concept, and you prefer to dwell on maintaining an anachronism on
the Internet. Seems downright twisted.
> Did Amazon force fit the legacy brick & mortar shopping
> experience to the Internet? Obviously not; they developed a
> far superior "mail order catalog."
EXACTLY! Whereas any online MVPD look-alike would be more like Amazon forcing
its customers to drive to a few locations in town, to place their Internet
orders. Maintaining the old store model, when it was no longer necessary. I
wonder how Craig still fails to grasp this, in his new-found role as MVPD
mouthpiece.
> More pure crap. There has been a viable market for selling
> content since VHS Enabled home video.
You're being disingenuous, Craig! You talk about syndicated shows, and DVD sets
of shows, as if they fit the same model as initial offering of periodic
episodes online. Take the role of your "the bundle," Craig. Start with that
idea in your mind. Do you really not see that Internet distribution
simultaneous with "the bundle" distribution, or INSTEAD OF "the bundle"
distribution, is brand new? Perhaps I should use that same disingenuous
argument to explain that "the bundle" distribution is hardly different from DVD
or VHS sets.
> The report covered more than edge servers. Yes some of this
> has been going on for years; that does not mean it is ready
> to scale for the masses. It will take years.
It will easily scale as fast as consumers make the switch, Craig. It's not
"years" for individual consumers. If you switched **RIGHT NOW**, you could make
it work as well as I have been, for the past 4-5 years. If anything, I have
been experiencing better and better service, even as more and more people have
begun using Internet streaming. These changes to ISP networks have been ongoing
steadily, for as long as ISPs have existed.
Bert
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