[opendtv] Re: NBC Launching Live Stream | Multichannel
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:53:11 -0500
> I wrote:
>
>> So Bert, do you expect more people to use the NBC authenticated TVE
>> services, or to pay CBS $5.99/mo for All Access?
>
> More illustration of Craig's mindset. Examples are many, but this does remind
> me of the early days of widescreen TVs and LCD TVs. Craig was assuring us
> that costs of widescreen TVs would be too high for them to ever become
> prevalent, and also that TV manufacturers would "never allow" HDTV sets to
> become a commodity item. Why would they, Craig wondered. I remember
> specifically informing Craig that not only will widescreen HDTVs dominate the
> TV market, but that they would also dominate the PC monitor market.
>
You are hopeless. Why answer the question when you can distort things I said
almost two decades ago.
> I have no doubt that now, Craig will go on at length to explain why this
> happened. And yet, at the time, he was as stubborn as he is now about
> Internet TV over neutral pipes. The point is, it was obvious back then that
> this was happening, just as this Internet TV transition is obvious now.
I have no doubt that you refuse to answer the question because the answer is so
obvious, and it undermines your theories that the Internet will kill bundles.
> Of course they do, Craig. And the congloms and content owners are already
> making that content openly available for anyone using one, or sometimes
> several, optional standards. The receiver makers have only to comply.
Not true. They need a license from the content owners.
>
>
> Hey Craig. As far as I know, Dell did not have to get in bed with Netflix, to
> allow Dell PCs to subscribe to Netflix.
Nor did Apple or Google or Amazon. Netflix is a SVOD Service - I.e. It requires
a subscription. They actively sought out everyone that can host an App/player
to sell subscriptions.
> If there was ANY special arrangement, it was the generic one applicable to
> *all* PC makers, that HD content can only be sent to a monitor through HDMI.
You can thank Microsoft for this, as they agreed to cripple PCs to provide the
content protection the content owners demanded. I'm not saying this was a bad
thing for you, but it has no bearing on other platforms, as the content owners
decide what they will allow where, and for how much.
Regards
Craig
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