[opendtv] Re: Early UHF in DC and Baltimore
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 00:05:25 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
No Bert. At the time cable systems were re-regulated in 1992 the
typical system could carry 30-35 channels.
Highly doubtful, Craig, although it only reinforces my point that cable
capacity was a constraint too, even if not as much as OTA capacity. Cable
systems by 1992 were carrying that many channels as their BASIC service, Craig.
(Also pay attention to what they say about whether cable rates are regulated by
franchising authorities.)
https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/OSEC/library/legislative_histories/1439.pdf
Since 1992, the problem has not been limits on capacity.
For example, German TV is available online. Most other countries' too, but only
for the news programs. Explain why all of this has not been available on cable
systems, all these years. It is easily available on the Internet. Or do you
really think that CBS or NBC can dictate to MVPDs that they must not carry
these other TV networks? Cable systems can negotiate rights to whatever they
want, but the fact remains that capacity is limited, so the cable system has to
choose. On the Internet, the user gets to choose, and the individual owner of
content, but not some MVPD head end.
The Internet is little different than programming a broadcast station
or cable network.
You must be very unfamiliar with the web, to make such an absurd comment.
WOW! All the content in the world at your fingertips!
Exactly, limited only by what the INDIVIDUAL content owner decides, and what
the individual user can find. Again, this is common knowledge for anyone
familiar with web browsing (which has been available for "only" 22 years). So
why we are belaboring the obvious again is beyond me. So for example, RAI will
allow you to watch the news programs, but not their other daily programs
(legally, anyway). And yet, cable systems in the US have an extremely limited
choice of such international programming. Because they only have so much
capacity. No other reason.
But you'll need a MVPD subscription.
You can watch more Olympic sports than I can digest, FOTA, and I even noticed
that you can stream some FOTI for a period of time (30 minutes, I think, when I
checked last). And guess what, Craig? The more people bail out of MVPDs, the
more organizations such as NBC will make such programming available using other
means than MVPD subscriptions. This too is obvious.
But in general there is not a large audience for foreign media,
And yet, it is all available on the Internet, large audience or no.
And guess what? People are jumping ship with Internet services
too.
Obviously! That's part of the big advantage of Internet web sites. I've been
pointing this out to you from day 1. Unlike MVPDs, it's trivially easy to
switch web sites. It is a competitive marketplace, as opposed to a monopoly.
Absurd. You keep harking back to the old analog days when bandwidth
was scarce.
It was more severely constrained then, but it continues to be infinitely more
constrained than the Internet, Craig. You continue to argue yourself into
corners. The continuous, one-way broadcast distribution protocol, once the only
game in town for delivery of wideband material, is extremely restrictive.
They won't lose subscribers Bert. They won't attract them in the first
place.
Nonsense. Cable systems attracted customers with very low prices initially.
Then those low prices vanished, in short order. Year after year, the prices
seemed to double. But, the system was a monopoly, so no problem. Jack up the
rates. **No Internet OTT site could get away with that**. They can try, but
they would lose subscribers in no time.
Exactly. But people are not interested in obscure options.
People are obviously not interested in remaining tethered either, Craig. We
have seen what people are interested in, and it is Internet broadband
increasingly, legacy MVPD structures decreasingly.
Bert
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