[opendtv] Re: Advanced-Television.com: Reuters TV direct to consumer
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:52:26 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> Actually CNN and Fox News offer live streams, for authenticated
> MVPD subscribers.
That's nothing more than TVE, Craig. This Reuters service, just as all of the
other examples we've been talking about, go BEYOND this TVE last gasp attempt.
They go "direct to consumer."
>> Can you go to FOTI cbs.com with your iPad or iPhone? I'm curious.
>> I'll bet you can't.
>
> Yes Bert, I can go to ANY site on my iPad or IPhone.
Sorry, I don't believe you. Did you try? The reason I ask is that if I try
streaming cbs.com to our Kindle Fire, it appears like it's going to work at
first, much as it does on my PC, but you end up with the video screen remaining
black. Whether it's Flash or the other optional protocols that aren't supported
in the Kindle, I don't know.
> I can't argue that this trend is good or bad. But it IS what is
> happening. And it IS NOT Apple, Roku or Google that are forcing this
> - it is the content owners.
I don't *begin* to buy this, Craig. In all of CE history, including in the
Internet era, the model has been that the originators/transmitters of content
use a particular standard, or a small set of standards, and the CE
manufacturers take it upon themselves to comply with this or these standards.
This to ensure that the content is available to users. The CE vendors have
NEVER had to beg for this. Do you see Sony or LG having to beg the TV networks
for permission to decode ATSC? Do you see Dell having to go begging to, say,
Amazon, to oh please let me have access to your portal? No, of course not.
As long as the congloms make their stuff available, it is the responsibility of
the **CE vendors** to comply. Not to make special demands, for their own
ultimate ulterior motives. The only ones to blame, when services made available
by content owners aren't available to certain CE devices, are the CE device
makers.
> And I DO NOT favor these schemes or other monopoly/oligopoly
> business models.
Again, I don't believe you. This is what you said, Craig:
> but it is nice to know that you are paying for at least on streaming
> service...
Why would you think it's "nice," if you weren't in favor? (In fact, we pay
Amazon Prime for the free shipping, since my wife uses Amazon extensively.)
> The days of free (ad supported) content are numbered;
Craig! You've been saying this for 20 years, that I'm aware of. The opposite is
true. Ad supported is the norm over the web, and that's where TV is heading. US
TV viewers have been conditioned to think TV is only available by subscription,
but isn't it great that the younger ones are saying bull.
Bert
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