[opendtv] Re: Linear streams
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:20:36 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
You are correct that bundles may vary from one MVPD to another, but that
is irrelevant; the test is whether you are paying for the source
operating the TVE site.
"Irrelevant" depends who you are talking for. It's certainly not "irrelevant"
to a subscriber who prefers the TVE deals available at some other MVPD than the
one he's attached to. As I repeated many times, this constraint is completely
artificial, when the Internet is the medium you're connected to. Dish figured
it out, when they introduced Sling TV.
No Bert, there is nothing artificial about it. It is a business
decision.
Don't be obtuse, Craig. The fact that your neighborhood is served by Cox,
instead of Comcast, should have NO IMPACT AT ALL on what sources you can have
access to, on the neutral broadband service.
And it is a migration strategy.
Repeating, spoken like a true mouthpiece for the MVPD industry. Dish's
"migration strategy" managed to leapfrog your "strategy" handily, with Sling TV.
The Wikipedia article says nothing about a "TVE package" Bert, because
no such package exists.
Absurd again! The choices you get from your MVPD, for TVE, *are* a TVE package.
The choices differ among MVPDs. QED.
Wikipedia gets it well enough to say:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Everywhere
"... while media activists have criticized the concept for merely extending the
existing oligarchy of the subscription television industry to the internet, and
considering it to be collusion against "cord cutters"-those who drop cable and
satellite entirely in favor of accessing content via terrestrial television,
the internet, and subscription video on demand (SVOD) services."
Only Craig seem unable to get it.
Bert
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