[opendtv] Re: Congress to cable customers: Stop your whining | InfoWorld
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 01:30:57 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
You are the guy yelling "fire" in the theater Bert. You are saying
that there is no future for the delivery of live linear streams
How is that yelling "fire"? Are you so nostalgic that you can't conceive of TV
that only delivers anything "live" when it's necessary to do so? Do you really
think that anything would "collapse" if distribution infrastructures quit
wasting the vast majority of their capacity on signals practically no one is
watching?
Or here, let me quote this from you:
The success of MVPD services is also based on one thing: maintaining
the oligopoly on distribution of popular content.
Is that a good thing for consumers, Craig? And if not, why would consumers
promote this model with their wallets, given that alternatives exist, and who
is paying you to insist this must go on? How would the "sky fall" if this
practice stops? International travel is thriving Craig, no thanks to ocean
liners. TV content distribution thrives too, without becoming nostalgic about
the old way.
But I am NOT an idiot. I ALSO understand that the Internet is
fully capable of delivering walled-in TV content,
Depends what you mean by "walled in." In the new paradigm, IP-based MVPDs (OTT
sites) *would* be idiots, if they constrained themselves to operating only over
a specific infrastructure, the old way. And why should they? To play nice with
the competition? Come now. Walled up mean this to me. Walled up does not mean
that some content would only be available for pay. The Internet has supported
pay sites for decades.
Ocean liners are VERY POPULAR these days
Predictable response. Yes, steaming around in circles, in the Caribbean and the
Aegean. These are different ships, different business models, having nothing to
do with the legacy ocean liner role. International travel is a booming
business, and ship transport has very little to do with it. Same with TV
content distribution. Linear/live streams are HARDLY essential, except the few
special cases that do not merit 24/7 service using up over 80% of plant
capacity.
What if that medium is not 2-way, e.g. DBS?
The longer term view is certainly to use satellite for something it's uniquely
good at. Like I said, rural broadband seems one natural role.
No. Because it took little more than a half rack of equipment
to hold a bank of modems and a server.
Don't be absurd. If the ISPs had to lay cable to every household they served,
the neutral Internet would never have happened. And you also miss that the ISPs
also have to create their internal core networks, but they can do this by
leasing existing telephone lines. So the neutral telephone infrastructure was
absolutely instrumental in creating the neutral commercial Internet, Craig. As
were the very efficient, cost-effective protocols.
The telcos shut that effort down.
Which does not mean that the industry had to follow this path. The telephone
companies seem to have survived more than a century, selling only connection
service and neutral pipes. I can't blame the telcos for playing hardball, but
only because the cablecos were not forced to follow the same rules. Things
could have gone differently. But we are here, and that's why the neutrality
mandate is essential. Without adequate competition, we have already seen what
happens.
How can you sell it for less than the cable company?
Competition always works this magic. It's obvious how, Craig. To be
competitive, you have to innovate. If you don't need to compete, you don't have
to innovate.
So why, if you really believe what you wrote above, are millions
of people NOT signing up for Sling TV?
First, you have no idea how well they're doing. Second, momentum and basic
laziness. Millions are bailing out of the old school model you so cherish,
Craig, and guess what, they're going SOMEWHERE. You need to get used to it.
How absurd. What could you access with a modem prior to 1995?
Are you joking? Email, for one, Archie, Gopher, any number of documents and
software from FTP sites, and by 1993-1994, the WWW! Craig was seriously
snoozing. In those days, I deliberately stayed away from schemes like AOL. Why
spoil a good thing? And the only reason I could was because competition existed
for ISP service.
You can thank Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, and Vincent Cerf,
No, Craig. You simply don't get it. The Internet was not invented "to be
neutral." In fact, its protocols were supporting, and continue to serve,
non-neutral networks. The Internet was originally used to tie together research
sites, military sites, and the like. Not available to the public at all. The
NIPRNET and the SIPRNET are hardly "neutral." When commerce was allowed to use
the Internet, enterprise networks sprang up, also hardly neutral. The public
cannot gain access to these non-neutral networks, and many times, users of the
non-neutral IP networks cannot gain access to public Internet sites!
But the Internet that the average Joe could access, aside from abortive
attempts such as AOL, was neutral. You simply don't understand what's at stake
here. You think that something WAS chiseled in stone to guarantee neutrality,
so you cavalierly dismiss the problem. And as usual, you do so aggressively.
Bert
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