[opendtv] Re: News: Not So Fast: Programmers Question TW's IPTV Trial
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:16:13 -0400
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> Just a small difference in the way the SAME bits are
> delivered.
In every case, you pay some toward the rights to the
content and some toward the way it is distributed,
including perhaps the venue itself. It's always the
same thing.
> If I go to the theater I get a big screen experience
> and access to the content when it is released.
So the ticket price goes to paying for the content and
for the venue.
> If I buy a DVD I get to keep it.
Okay, so if you have already seen the theater release,
you pay another time for the content, then you pay for
the DVD production and distribution costs.
> And Broadcasting if far from free.
The ads go to defraying the costs of airing the content
and the costs of running the transmitting station. So
again you're paying for the content, as well as the new
costs of the OTA transmission. Potentially, if you
watch a movie on TV that you've seen in theaters and
have bought the DVD, you've paid three times for the
content.
Every time you receive the content from a new
distribution medium, you pay again a price that is
associated only with paying for the rights to that
*content*. Or "bits," as you like to put it.
> And I do whine about paying for cable and still having
> to watch the ads.
I don't see why, Craig. The tradeoff is very simple.
Either you pay subscription fees *and* watch the ads, or
you pay higher subscription fees. Perhaps cable should
create a higher-priced tier that skips all ads, for more
than just HBO. The extra costs involved in a cable
infrastructure, compared with OTA, have to be covered
somehow.
Or, of course, you can just say no.
Bert
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