[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: FCC Comment Filing System Flooded
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 02:06:45 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Most TVs are inadequate for use as a web browser due to resolution
limitations.
HDTVs are ubiquitous. Craig is stuck in the distant past. Absolutely no problem
browsing the web on a TV.
There is no monopoly on broadband Bert.
As much as there is for legacy MVPD service. And you should make a point to
inform Verizon and AT&T that their 4G service is perfectly adequate for
providing home broadband to the masses. They would love to avoid having to
install the fiber backhaul and 5G service, to expand their broadband coverage
area. You could save them a bundle, Craig. It would make you rich!
Wrong. Not that this has ANYTHING to do with net neutrality...
It demonstrates how legacy MVPDs were never meant to be neutral, and never were
neutral. It was in response to your disbelief that anyone would say MVPDs were
not neutral. Belaboring the obvious again.
So why do Sling TV, Sony PlayStation Vue, DirecTV Now, and Hulu Live
exist Bert. Are these services UNWANTED?
Always a challenge to get the most obvious points across. They exist because
Internet broadband is neutral, and the special interests (ISPs) are not (yet)
permitted to block them. People have always craved not being subjected to
monopoly content gatekeepers (except Craig of course), and the Internet has
opened the doors. But without a neutrality mandate, your local monopolies could
block these OTT sites, to favor their own walled in "the bundles."
And again Craig can't fathom how the economy works. Of COURSE they
are going for much lower prices on the Internet, Craig. THAT'S HOW
COMPETITION WORKS!!
No Bert. It is strategic.
Competition is strategic, Craig. Big discovery. You bemoan that the local MVPD
monopolies cannot demand higher and higher prices, because the neutral Internet
has removed them as a non-neutral gatekeeper, allowing the congloms to bypass
that gatekeeper function. And yet for some reason, this is bad, according to
you. That's how the economy always works. That's why many local booksellers are
a thing of the past. Are you going to ask for government regulations to restore
local bookstores?
The cost for the bundle that more than 80 million homes have been
paying for for decades, has been inflated beyond reason,
Because the delivery pipe is non-competitive, non-neutral, a gatekeeper. I had
seen this coming before ever subscribing to any such service. And I didn't need
to invent any conspiracy theory about politicians. One wonders how Craig called
this the "superior medium."
First it removes the cost of carriage from consideration.
That's simplistic. The cost of carriage still exists, for the consumer and for
the congloms, but it's now neutral. Which means, no collusion is forced on the
subscriber. No bundles that are only formulated to benefit the owners and the
pipe. People can shop around. That's called competition.
Second, it creates a new pricing floor from which they can continue to
raise the cost of the video bundles.
Wrong, because you always ignore the greed factor. Rehashing old ground again,
over a neutral two-way pipe, any one of the colluding parties can jump ship,
and go it alone, to grab people that didn't buy the bloated option. Or go with
a different formula. Just like Disney and a handful of others did on Sling TV.
Just like CBS did with All Access.
Sorry Bert, but people have had choices for TV content since the early
'80s.
Ridiculous. People had the choices from one provider, that's it.
I managed to refute every single point Craig made, in a ridiculously repetitive
and verbose post. And yet, Craig winds back every time, to his same old
rhetoric of years and decades past.
END OF THREAD.
Bert
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