[opendtv] Re: B&C: Set-Top Box Proposal Pulled From FCC Meeting
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 23:36:18 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
The FCC spent two decades spinning their wheels, while the MVPDs
protected the STB cash cow. Yes, the FCC needed to do more...
So Craig, are you a chronic complainer then? I agree with you on this,
naturally, but it looks like damned if they do, damned if they don't, when it
comes to your comments wrt the FCC.
This has nothing to do with Title II - it goes way beyond that,
into regulation of both content and Internet commerce.
You don't get it, Craig. Once you have the neutral Internet, any IP-based
device maker can play on it. Once you have any number of competing devices
being used to feed TV sets, or just to view directly on their own displays, you
don't NEED for the government to regulate what freedom these devices have to
give the consumer. The limited devices will be competing against less limited
devices, and people will decide just how much they will be shackled by the
equipment designers. Title II was essential. Beyond that, competition does the
rest.
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.
I doubt that. You are suggesting that, for instance, the .com TV network sites
will disappear, in favor of one single Hulu SVOD. This is not happening. What
is happening is that the content owners are using, and considering to use,
multiple ways of getting their content out there. And we have already read
articles that explain why this is so. In short, greed. Every owner wants to
sell as much as possible. If the monopoly pipe is neutral, the content owners
will have to try to outdo each other to find more eyeballs. I think you've
always missed this. If the pipe is NOT neutral, that's when the MVPD model will
instantly take hold again.
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.
Mostly irrelevant to the "for economic reasons" argument. Your argument was
that the local broadband monopolies did not exist, because we have such copious
competition as FiOS and Google Fiber, against the incumbent cableco monopolies.
My argument was that BS, there is no copious competition. And then, timed
perfectly, as other such have been when you make your pronouncements, Google
Fiber goes belly up. No, not because of any angst about Title II. Simply
because these infrastructures are just plain expensive. They are expensive,
Craig, because they are very labor intensive efforts. It would be very
difficult for a new entrant to be able to build a new network and have it be
cost-competitive against an incumbent. And at very best, you might get a couple
competing in every neighborhood, and their prices will be comparable.
That's why we need Title II.
Why SHOULD Apple get any cut?
Why do Walmart and Target get a cut when they sell an Apple device?
Target or Walmart are providing a sales service to Apple, a one-time service.
They get paid for this service. Customers benefit from this service. So
customers pay a little fee to be able to drive to Walmart at a moment's notice,
and find this device. Plus, shelf space is not free either. Look up
"opportunity cost."
The radio and TV broadcast content owners distribute their content using
standards, at least in most cases today, and always in the past. At most, the
content owner would have reason to compensate the distribution pipe, a fair
amount based on usage. But any CE vendor can use those standards, to allow the
device user access to it. There is no reason for collusion, except for the
benefit of the CE vendor. None. This type of collusion costs the consumer, and
for no benefit to him.
An example of "cost." The content owner can pay the CE vendor to make sure NOT
to allow the equipment to use Yahoo View or any ad-supported site. Bribe the CE
vendor to force all users onto pay sites exclusively. This is not "just
business," unless you think collusion and bribes are "just business."
The other way around is similarly unnecessary, from a customer's point of view.
Apple paying the content owner to make the content available in a proprietary
format, so the Apple customer has to do what Apple prefers.
There are plenty of shady deals in business, Craig, that you can't explain away
by claiming "just business." I don't know why this needs to be belabored.
Bert
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