[opendtv] Re: Apple in Talks with Comcast About Streaming-TV Service - WSJ.com
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 22:46:35 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>> That's disingenuous, Craig. The original idea was that any CE
>> manufacturer could build its plug-and-play TV appliance WITHOUT
>> having to go begging, hat in hand, to the MVPDs. Apple is
>> instead going begging, hat in hand, to Comcast, for that
>> exclusive privilege. You really don't see the difference?
> Building a plug & Play IPTV device is a different matter. Most
> cable system are not using IP delivery for video content
But they offer IP streams of the TV content to their subscribers, don't they?
To watch on their tablets or what have you. As a device maker, you market that
type of standard device, people buy them, and the walled gardens are going to
have to accommodate these new trends. As they have been doing, btw.
One of the accommodations from the MVPD/ISPs is to increase their Internet
bandwidth. So there's no need for collusion. Not unless the ISPs start
deploying non-standard IP! That thankfully hasn't happened quite yet.
> Apple is asking Comcast to provide a service that Comcast may
> already be using to serve its own customers - managed bandwidth.
Apple is trying to benefit from Comcast's antique "managed bandwidth" technical
solution, exclusively, yes. It would be better instead if no one attempted to
prop up this antique technical solution.
> You tell us that to solve the last mile problem, companies will
> need to co-locate edge servers in cable head ends. But when Apple
> tries to do this, you call it collusion.
Sorry, Craig. Apple is **not** offering to distribute servers or any such.
Apple instead wants access to Comcast's old school "managed bandwidth." Netflix
is doing more of what you pretend Apple is trying to do. And if there's any
distribution of servers to be done, Apple expects Comcast to do that part.
That's why the articles wondered why Comcast would need to bother with Apple at
all. Funny how you feel compelled to not understand this.
> And #2 perpetuates these monopolies, as long as the content
> owners refuse to let new competitors have access to the exclusive
> content.
You mean, suicidal content owners? People who have something to sell look for
outlets, Craig, as many as they can get, to maximize revenues and profits. You
seem to be stuck on this walled garden model, even when the technical solutions
have gone way beyond.
Bert
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