[opendtv] Re: Early UHF in DC and Baltimore
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 02:09:22 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Thanks to retrans consent we now have six media conglomerates that
control almost everything we see on MVPD systems.
Sorry, Craig, but that's a non-sequitur. One of those things you say that do
not follow any logical path. Any content owner, using MVPDs for delivery, can
extort as high a subscription fee as the subscribers will pay. Not just
congloms, but any others too, operating over these local monopolies. The most
successful become big and rich, because they create or buy up the content most
people want. We have six congloms? Well, that's already better than the three
original networks.
Because it is not in the interest of the cable systems or their
subscribers to carry most foreign media content.
Don't get lost now, Craig. The fact that all these foreign "channels" are not
available over legacy MVPD broadcast simply proves that someone has decided to
not include them. Whereas on the Internet, they are all available, minus those
that the OWNER of the content decides to restrict.
There is no similarity between the Internet and legacy MVPD "channels," because
there is no middleman gatekeeper deciding for you, over the Internet.
Capacity has nothing to do it hit Bert...
And that's why capacity has a whole lot to do with it. Like I said, the
licensing issue, in the legacy MVPD model, are the responsibility of the local
monopoly. In the Internet model, the local monopoly becomes the neutral
broadband provider, and has no say about what content gets delivered. Instead,
the licensing issue becomes the responsibility of any (huge) number of
competing web portals, not one monopoly gatekeeper.
Not much word volume, when you stick to the core arguments.
Bert
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