[opendtv] Re: B&C: Set-Top Box Proposal Pulled From FCC Meeting
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 10:46:30 -0400
On Oct 1, 2016, at 7:49 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
The FCC kept a low profile in regulating the MVPDs, Craig, and now you seem
to be implying they needed to do more.
Not me Bert. It was Congress.
SEC. 629. COMPETITIVE AVAILABILITY OF NAVIGATION DEVICES.
`(a) COMMERCIAL CONSUMER AVAILABILITY OF EQUIPMENT USED TO ACCESS
SERVICES PROVIDED BY MULTICHANNEL VIDEO PROGRAMMING DISTRIBUTORS-
The Commission shall, in consultation with appropriate industry
standard-setting organizations, adopt regulations to assure the commercial
availability, to consumers of multichannel video programming and other
services offered over multichannel video programming systems, of converter
boxes, interactive communications equipment, and other equipment used by
consumers to access multichannel video programming and other services offered
over multichannel video programming systems, from manufacturers, retailers,
and other vendors not affiliated with any multichannel video programming
distributor. Such regulations shall not prohibit any multichannel video
programming distributor from also offering converter boxes, interactive
communications equipment, and other equipment used by consumers to access
multichannel video programming and other services offered over multichannel
video programming systems, to consumers, if the system operator's charges to
consumers for such devices and equipment are separately stated and not
subsidized by charges for any such service.
The FCC spent two decades spinning their wheels, while the MVPDs protected the
STB cash cow. Yes, the FCC needed to do more...
Plus, in the new STB ruling, what the FCC thinks it might need to regulate,
with respect to it, is all OBE. You say, FCC, none of that is required, once
the STB idea is put to rest. Connected TV services? Ditto! Because we have
Title II, those connected TV services compete openly, and we allow the
non-Internet aspects of TV delivery to wither and die off on their own.
This has nothing to do with Title II - it goes way beyond that, into regulation
of both content and Internet commerce.
Yes, BUT, only because we have Title II in place already.
Irrelevant. Title II does not allow the FCC to regulate any form of Internet
commerce, only the pipes and interconnections. I think they call that "Net
Neutrality."
And this is what you continue to miss. There is still an anti-competitive
element in this equation, which is the provider of broadband service. That
anti-competitive element, if allowed to operate open-loop, would simply
recreate the MVPD model, using IP perhaps.
That's already happening Bert, but your looking at the wrong monopoly. The
content owners are taking over the MVPD business. It will take a few years, and
the MVPDs will hold onto some percentage of their video customers. But in time,
the content owners will also own the distribution of their content. The Title
II ISP monopoly will just control the pipe needed to access the TV bundles.
Craig has no shame. You claimed it was government regulations that caused
this, without ever explaining how.
It's true, and I explained how several times. The threat of regulation and rate
regulation added risk to the return on investment calculations for any new
overbuilds. There are other issues in play as well, but they all add up to
governments at every level entrenching another monopoly.
Or substantiating your claim. I've been telling you that the problem was
simply cost. I told you from day 1 that FTTH was too expensive to jump into
exclusively, even while you and the others trade scribes were hyping it up.
No Bert you claimed otherwise for months until I pointed out the economic
barriers to overbuilding.
Really?
Apple TV is now an open platform for which anyone can create Apps.
Let us know when you have access to Yahoo View and to all the other TV web
sites I can access, Craig. Try for example wwitv.com.
I have access to both on my iPhone and iPad, and thus can watch them via my
Apple TV using AirPlay.
Why SHOULD Apple get any cut?
Why do Walmart and Target get a cut when they sell an Apple device?
It's called a business, a store where customers buy software and services for
their iOS devices. Developers have made billions creating Apps and selling them
through the App Store. Apple is providing access to about 1 billion iOS
customers, curation that protects both the developer and consumer, and the
virtual storefront.
Why don't you ask Hulu why they are willing to give Apple a cut of
subscriptions sold through the App Store?
Craig needs to understand what collusion is. Here he is, trying to justify it.
Sorry Bert, but commerce is not collusion. Is Amazon colluding with Fed-X, UPS
and the Postal Service to put brick and mortar stores out of business?
Are Disney, Comcast Universal, Fox, Viacom and others colluding with Netflix
and Amazon by licensing content to them for their SVOD bundles?
You really need to get over this collusion bull. TV entertainment is a product
that U.S. consumers now pay hundreds of billions for each year.
Collusion is when a content owner blocks their servers from delivering content
to some devices, while offering that content freely to others. Ask yourself why
Hulu blocked Google TV devices?
Well, now you should expand your thinking to "separate content from carriage
from playback hardware."
Why? You keep telling us the content owners have the right to sell to anyone
they want. That is exactly what they are doing. It also means they have the
right to NOT sell their content to anyone they want.
Regards
Craig
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