[opendtv] Re: Smartphones encourage mobile user churn
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:37:33 -0400
Tom Barry wrote:
> Do not discount the other benefit from a proprietary
> solution. That is that you can keep control over it. That
> in turn allows the cable company to choose innovations based
> upon their business needs, rather than have the long delay
> needed implement any new common standard.
That's certainly what the MVPDs want us to believe, anyway, while they continue
to rake in their infinite revenue streams.
I've no doubt that every solution will entail its own set of "unintended
consequences," like you describe. But even that is manageable.
The Internet, so far anyway, has managed to stick to this open standards model.
The MVPDs could certainly do likewise. If they did, then the TV and STB
manufacturers would make their products upgradeable, or standard STBs would be
offered ubiquitously as transitional upgrade devices, just as they do
everywhere else in the world.
Bert
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