[opendtv] Re: Apple TV Ensures TV's Future Is Not Just Apps, For One Really Obvious Reason - Forbes

From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 19:22:52 -0400

Craig wrote:

And by the way, you are wrong about linear TV being used by less than half
the
audience in the U.S. It's about half if you only count viewing of this
content
live; if you add time shifting by DVR it is much higher.

If you watch time-shifted, by definition, you're not watching linear, Craig.
Linear TV is by appointment. The fact that many people are still using their
old equipment to watch "on demand," rather than going online to do so (as they
do whenever they watch on any device other than a TV set), only means that they
haven't updated their equipment yet. In time, they do so.

Perhaps you should consider the reality of the Windows App infrastructure.
It's
not exactly what we are talking about here. In fact the idea of running apps
designed for a cell phone or tablet on a PC is kinda absurd.

You just don't get it, Craig. The point is, there's no difference in ease of
use. There's hardly any difference in how the material is presented. If
anything, when I use the "app," I feel totally restricted. It's like wearing a
straightjacket, compared with the browser.

And btw, you don't even need to connect the PC physically to the TV set. Look
up "Miracast." There are so many way better options than the limited-use boxes
that one wonders why the journalists don't bring this up with every article on
this subject.

apps are designed to work with a touch
screen interface, while browsers are designed to work with a mouse or
trackpad.

Those are just words, Craig. There is virtually no difference between "tapping"
and "clicking," other than the fact that clicking an object on a large screen
is a heck of a lot more accurate than fat-finger tapping on a smartphone.

People
watching TV on PCs are typically watching on a PC screen;

Also "just words." A PC can display on any number of screen types, and for
sure, more in the future. Plus, once again, look up "Miracast."

The price of a PC can only decline so far Bert, before they have to give them
away. One of the major reasons that PC sales are declining is that many
vendors
are still pushing Windows 7,

You can get a full-fledged PC for well under $300 these days, which should
really make one wonder why spend ~$150 or so for one of the limited boxes.

And, going around and around on this, PC sales are declining much less
precipitously than tablet sales are. The main reason for PC sales being flat is
that the market is saturated AND that the new OSs, beginning with Windows 8,
have demanded less, rather than more, horsepower from the PC. But people
continue to use PCs. Tablets and phones are not replacements for PCs. They are
devices which are newer, so they naturally experienced a large initial sales
spike, and now they have also fairly well saturated the market (in the West,
anyway).

The trade scribes need to tell the whole story. Put the subject matter in
perspective. Understand the universe of possibilities.

Bert

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