[opendtv] Re: News: The death of Cable TV

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:36:55 -0400

At 3:02 PM -0500 11/3/10, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Again, it's still a unique model, in which multiple "service providers" coexist over the SAME medium. I'm not making a value judgment about how much choice miught be available. I'm simply stating an obvious fact, that for some reason you feel compelled to quibble with.
Internet TV, via an ISP and via "anointed web sites" hard-coded into TV sets, is clearly headed to the MVPD model we already know. OTA TV remains different from this. It's simple.
How is the existence of multiple providers of video services via the Internet any different than multiple stations via DTV?
It is true, as Kon described, that some of these devices (Google enabled TVs, Apple TV, etc.) have app stores for which they act as gatekeepers. But they all are working with multiple content providers - YouTube, Netflix, etc. - and this list is likely to grow as these ecosystems mature.
Where things may get a bit more complicated is when content providers - especially the congloms - force the companies that operate these ecosystem to enter into exclusive contracts for each ecosystem. So if you buy an Apple TV you will need to pay for the Hulu App for Apple TV; if you buy a Google TV you will need to pay for the Hulu app for Google TV. But this is the congloms forcing these contracts, rather than opening up their own stores... 

Regards
Craig


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