[opendtv] Re: Even Time Warner Has Realized That Cord Cutters Are the Future
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 02:16:35 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Sorry, Craig, but no one has ever called Hulu a VMVPD. It is one
of the original OTT sites.
Another reading comprehension problem Bert?
You have, Craig. This is a simple article of Time Warner putting its content
online, instead of losing a lot of viewers who have become cord cutters. Time
Warner could also have created a Time Warner OTT site, for that matter, and
this would have changed nothing of importance in the story.
The article never mentioned VMVPD, only you did. And why do you feel so
compelled? Good question. For some reason, you feel compelled to believe that
MVPDs are the only possible answer. Go figure.
That online TV service will offer the live streams
Maybe, maybe not, but the point is, who cares? I can get any number of
live/linear streams over the Internet, and I could also if I subscribed to CBS
All Access, and yet NONE of the sites I use can possibly be called VMVPDs.
This is yet another example of how the content owners are allowed to
skirt anti-trust laws. What a deal - a VMVPD service owned by all of
the members of the content oligopoly...
As I said before, this is your distorted view of reality, caused by so many
decades of dependency on a monopoly. HBO Now doesn't go over Hulu, right? ESPN
doesn't either, but they do sell over Sling. So what you're seeing is various
ways of getting conglom content over the Internet.
You don't need to perpetuate your dependency on any monopoly, Craig. The
content OWNERS are not the problem. It was the pipe that got you on the wrong
track. The content OWNERS are using various OTT sites, competing against one
another, including on their own FOTI .com web sites.
Bert
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