[opendtv] Re: AT&T to launch DirecTV Now streaming video service before 2017 - CNET
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:19:13 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Correct. They bought their way into the game with DirecTV
That's your conjecture. The deals are between AT&T, the parent company, and the
content owners, Craig, and the arrangement is new. Only in your imagination is
the DirecTV purchase instrumental to any of his. Certainly, the article made no
such claim.
And DirecTV is not a cabled MVPD.
DirecTV as a DBS-dependent MVPD is gone, Craig. Get used to it. They read the
tea leaves and wisely became an Internet company. It took a little longer than
it did for Dish to begin their shift to the Internet, and they used a different
strategy, but both DBS companies read the same tea leaves.
DSL is not competitive: never will be.
As competitive as HFC. You don't get it. G.fast can be as competitive as your
HFC plant shared among a few hundred households. These are all ultimately
transitional technologies, as all technology tends to be. The next evolutionary
step is most likely a mix of FTTH and wireless 5G, most likely.
True. But the restrictions I cited are caused by the "laws of the
marketplace."
And the laws of the marketplace always depend on what technology has to offer,
at the time. The only reason those licensing agreements were localized to
neighborhoods was that the technology of 40 years ago made this the logical
scheme. As I said, there is nothing chiseled on a tablet that makes this
arrangement the only option.
The physical limits are transitory as technology evolves. The limits
imposed by licensing are independent of technology
That's nonsensical. When technology gives new opportunities, companies will
grab them. They won't remained mired in the constraints of the past. You've got
to get the horse in front of the cart, Craig.
Internet streaming services don't have server farms?
The distribution portals pay for these and may even own them, Craig. The ISP is
neutral. Neutral means neutral. You are trying very hard to remain stuck in the
legacy way of doing things.
Sling and Sony PSVue pay subscriber fees to the content owners just
like the wired MVPDs.
Yup. And neither of these is an ISP. If there is a dual revenue stream
involved, the ISP per se is not part of it. The ISP is mandated to be neutral.
Those monopolistic cable head ends do not play a part in the dual revenue
streams, for Internet TV, that they play in legacy MVPDs. It does not work that
way.
Sling DOES NOT provide access to the broadcast networks,
A of today, Sling may not, but Hulu does, Yahoo View does, other web sites and
the networks themselves do. And again, there is nothing ordained from on high
that says that Sling can't carry TV network content on the future. You continue
to pretend that these are hard and fast rules, when they are fluid and bound to
evolve.
Bert
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