On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 07:47 -0500, Craig Birkmaier wrote: > As more consumption moves to the OPEN system, the percentage of > packets for which the walled garden service is compensated will > decline. By compensated, I mean subscriber fees that are used to pay > for content, not the monthly fee for broadband access. As long as the > walled garden services offers broadband, they are opening their > systems to competition. They will be supporting their own demise. Or > to be more exact, they will be the enabling technology that will > eventually cause the total decoupling of content and carriage. Actually this is the major fault with so-called Internet TV. It is not open and every vendor has their own server delivery approach. They may use a few low-level standards at most, but there is no interoperability. For example, try making an Akimbo box connect to Movielink, or download Akimbo clips with your Media Center PC. Everyone is desperately trying to stake some turf and impress the studios with their superior authentication, network, and STB, but in the end they will just shoot themselves in the feet. The only way Internet TV will get anywhere is with open standards and open services. Cheers Kon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.