[opendtv] Re: Shifting Online, Netflix Faces New Competition

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:43:49 -0500

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

> With digital content, however, we are not moving atoms, we are moving bits.
> Distance and "shipping costs" are mostly meaningless with Internet
> distribution of content (I do concede that hosting rates are based on the
> volume of bits delivered).

That parenthetical comment is actually the more important point.

Hosting, key management, rights management, program guides, are what have and 
will continue to create the new "middlemen," even with Internet distribution. 
To the consumer, therefore, it ends up being a tossup.

Whether these new middlemen take your money and spend it as you would prefer is 
just as unpredicable as it is now with MVPD subscriber fees. Just because the 
content arrives via the Internet does not mean that your monthly fees won't go 
to bundled programs.

Point being, "the Internet" will not guarantee a resolution of your gripes.

Bert
 
 
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