[opendtv] Re: Linear streams
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 18:20:15 -0400
Craig wrote:
You already forgot? Now you make it sound like the TVE package is identical,
no matter what your facilities-based provider might be?
There is no TVE package Bert. If a source is part of the MVPD service you
subscribe to you can access the companion TVE site.
Wrong again, Craig. What you get by TVE depends entirely on the bundling
options you have on that facilities-based MVPD you're subject to, not to
mention agreements made between your specific MVPD and the content owners. Get
it now? Why is this so hard to understand? The Internet delivery is slaved to
the limits and constraints of some totally unrelated medium. Therefore, what
you get for TVE from one MVPD will be different from your TVE options from
another MVPD. Here, Craig, read how TVE works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Everywhere
"TV Everywhere systems utilize accounts provided by a user's respective
television provider—which are used to verify whether the user is a subscriber
to a particular channel, thus allowing or denying access to the content."
In effect, this attempts to force-fit the MVPD walled garden model onto a
medium over which there is no technical need to bundle in that manner. It's an
artificiality placed over the unwalled Internet.
There is NO additional cost for access to TVE sites;
Please quote anything I said to imply there was additional cost. Is this Craig
inventing arguments when he has no case to make?
There is nothing inconsistent with my statement.
If there is no inconsistency, it is because your statement was flat wrong. Like
the Wikipedia article says, the TVE package you get depends entirely on your
MVPD bundling options which you are subscribed to. And MVPDs are not identical
in how they bundle and what they charge, or even who gives them the rights to
stream.
TVE mimics the limitations you have on **that** umbilical.
Of course it does Bert. that's the whole point! It is a paid service and they
want you to buy it from a MVPD.
That's funny. Until now, you didn't understand. Finally, you do. Amazing how
you couldn't just delete your entire post as being a waste of words.
"The point" that you finally grasped is the point I've been making all along.
TVE is nothing but a Hail Mary, to hang onto the walled garden business model,
even on an unwalled medium. DO READ THAT WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE! It too makes that
point. See if you can find where.
Bert
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