[opendtv] Re: How to Watch the Oscars Online, and Why You Probably Can't

From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:28:21 -0500
Craig wrote:

> TVE is not - in any way - modeled after the local monopoly pipe for TV 
> content. 
> The concept does leverage the fact that your subscription to a linear stream 
> MVPD service ALSO gives you - the subscriber - the right to access the 
> content 
> you are paying for via the Internet, directly from the content owner (not 
> from 
> your MVPD service).

As usual, Craig's distinctions that make no difference. You yourself recently 
posted the article about Comcast TVE offering more content than others, Craig. 
Tell me again how TVE is not modeled after a monopoly pipe. Tell me my you 
should be prevented from dropping Cox and subscribing to Comcast TVE, and/or 
any other OTT offering.

Or, do you really not get that anyone can buy merchandise from Amazon, Craig? 
Why should TV content be any different, when it's online?

Yes, IN THE PAST, TV content was too voluminous, compared to ISP net capacity, 
to be credibly transmitted over the Internet to households. Now that is no 
longer the case. That excuse doesn't work much anymore.

> The key here is that the MVPD service is handling customer service and 
> billing 
> for the content owners, whereas other OTT sites like Netflix do this 
> directly, 
> typically after you authorize them to charge your credit card every month.

Amazon seems to have no trouble with billing people, no matter where they live. 
I'm pretty sure that Comcast can figure that much out. So, can you subscribe to 
Comcast, to get their TVE package?

> Why someone would subscribe to multiple MVPD services is a meaningless issue.

Craig seems to cherish making me belabor the obvious. The point is, Craig, that 
no one prevents you from doing business with any other web-based business, 
right? You are not FORCED to deal with Amazon, if you want to buy a book, but 
no one is preventing it. Get it? You can use Amazon exclusively, or you can use 
Barnes and Noble, or you can use both, or you can go to someone else. Can you 
deal with Comcast for your TVE service, Craig? It's a really simple question. 
You stubborn obstinacy on this obvious point gets more astonishing by the day.

> Stuff deleted from my response

Craig, your responses are habitually overly verbose. I delete constantly and 
liberally, to try to keep the points from circling and circling around and 
around. If you repeat the same points 6 or 7 times in the same post, I only 
respond once. Or at least, I try. You can be sure I don't delete anything for 
fear of having to respond to it!

>Sorry to have to dredge all of this up, but it is typical of the way Bert 
> builds his house of cards arguments...

> I was saying that the day may well come when we can buy MVPD bundles from any 
> MVPD service, local, or from another operator of monopoly pipes

When the genius of Amazon, and just about any other business on the web, is 
finally revealed to Craig, that these businesses have been able to deal with 
anyone for the past 20 years now, perhaps he will finally understand how his 
"the future" has been everyone else's common knowledge for years and years.
> Sling TV is aimed at cord cutters and cord never's, primarily the 
> Millennials. 
> And it offers many networks that appeal to Millennials, not just sports.

As of now, Sling TV offers a total of 12 channels, right? The monthly fee is 
$20. ESPN asks for more than $6 from other MVPDs, when it's in a bundle that 
creates a huge amount of fake demand for ESPN (please don't force me to belabor 
this obvious point too). So you can expect ESPN to be asking for quite a bit 
more than $6 from Sling TV.

I'd say, Sling TV is definitely geared to sports fans, and I'm not the only one 
saying this. It was also mentioned in one of the articles posted when Sling was 
first announced.

Hey Craig, how many LTE transmitters and towers are needed, to cover a TV 
market of 40 mile radius, with almost the same spectral efficiency as ATSC? The 
answer is just one number. No need for many words.

Bert                                       
 
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