[opendtv] Re: Forbes: Cut The Cord? HBO Considers Selling Direct To Better Combat Netflix
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 07:47:18 -0400
Sorry Bert, buy if you must pay for the content it is walled. It does not
matter how many sources there are yo BUY that program.
If you go to Target and buy a movie, you are behind brick and mortar walls.
If you rent a movie from a Red Box vending machine it's still behind a pay wall.
If you must pay a monthly subscription to access ANY service the content is
behind a pay wall.
Different subscription services have different kinds of "exclusive" content to
attract subscribers.
The Internet just makes it possible for more people to sell you stuff. And then
there is the minor detail you leave out...
You must still pay the oligopolies for access to the Internet.
Regards
Craig
On Oct 10, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Once again, the cable companies and DBS offer PVRs, so no one has been
>> forced to watch by appointment for decades. The watching programs on
>> demand aspect is ***not*** exclusive to Internet sites.
>
> Sorry, left out a critical word there.
>
> Craig places all the emphasis on the VOD aspect, which is instead quite
> secondary. The difference between MVPD model and Internet TV is instead that
> the Internet in unwalled.
>
> And yes, Craig, anyone can create for-pay TV portals on the Internet. But as
> long as the consumer has a choice of a huge number of these, this is an
> unwalled scheme. There is no practical constraint on the sources of TV
> content, when sources are available over the Internet.
>
> This is such a fundamental difference that one wonders how it can be missed.
> I'm just stating the obvious.
>
> Bert
>
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