[opendtv] Re: News: The Real Fight Over Fake News

  • From: "Allen Le Roy Limberg" <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:31:43 -0400

Cable will have to switch to all digital plants as the analog TV receivers
currently in service are retired.  Only DTV receivers are being sold
anymore.

Al Limberg
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:31 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: The Real Fight Over Fake News


> At 2:23 PM -0400 6/3/08, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> >The untethered models that already exist today are FOTA and FOTI. Guess
> >what, Craig. You can opt for these immediately.
>
> No argument Bert.
>
> But the context of the thread was when FOTA and MVPDs would disappear
> as consumer choices.
>
> The congloms are NOT going to keep pushing their best content via
> FOTA for the reasons I have pointed out over the last week. Once
> again:
>
> 1. Government imposed content restrictions;
> 2. The ability to collect additional subscriber revenues from the MVPDs;
> 3. And the ability to target ads via the Internet.
>
> So the real question here is when will consumers pull the plug. For
> the most part they already have for FOTA.
>
> So the most important question is: When with the 85% who now get
> their TV fix from the MVPDs drop those services in favor of the
> various flavors of direct payment and ad supported media downloaded
> from the Internet?
>
> >
> >Did you see what Bob posted today on TV in Spain? Can you make a
> >connection? If consumers catch on to untethered, a shift in that
> >direction could also happen here. Broadcasters, congloms, and trade
> >journal scribes, have to get a clue, though.
>
> Trust me Bert. THEY HAVE A CLUE!
>
> And this is EXACTLY the reason why we do not currently have the same
> choices here that viewers have in Europe. The congloms are NOT going
> to take a step backward and give us all a better deal. They are going
> to continue to move forward to a business model where we will pay
> more than viewers in other countries for the privilege of viewing
> their content.
>
> >
> >You keep stubbornly sticking to your 15 percent half-truth, without
> >getting your head out of the sand (to be polite) long enough to see the
> >horizon.
>
> Half truth?
>
> I'd wager that half of that 15% watch less than an hour of TV per
> week via their FOTA receivers.
>
> You really need to at least move into the 20th century Bert...
>
> >
> >>>  The piece on the Pace cable STBs tells you that cable
> >>>  companies are looking to drop the analog tier as soon as
> >>>  possible. Maybe it's to offer more VOD. Maybe it's to
> >>>  facilitate a la carte. I don't know. Fact is, thay are moving
> >>>  for a quick transition, looks like to be completed within 3
> >>>  years.
> >>
> >>  Really?
> >
> >Yes, Craig. "Over the next three years."
> >
> >"The contract is for a low cost digital to analogue converter product
> >that will enable the transition to all-digital networks and will be
> >delivered over the next three years."
>
> So based on a simple press release from Pace, you have concluded that
> the entire cable industry will transition to all digital plants in
> three years.
>
> Hmmmm. What do you think about Bert's tip folks?
>
> Should we be buying Pace stock?
>
>
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