[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Hulu to Live Stream CBS Nets
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2017 09:11:03 -0500
On Jan 7, 2017, at 10:29 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
You never learn, Craig. Hulu on demand costs $8/mo. Hulu on demand without
ads costs $12/mo. Hulu with live streams costs $40/mo. What is 8 * 5, Craig?
8*5=40.
$40 gets you two services - live MVPD content and On Demand content.
This is not a 5X premium, it is a REDUCTION in the cost of buying live streams
from your local MVPD or a DBS system and subscribing to Hulu for VOD.
Aside from sports fans, who have no demand elasticity, why would any other
cord cutter care so much about those live streams?
Because they want them?
Why do tens of millions of people watch the live feeds of Game of Thrones or
the Walking Dead Bert? Why do the broadcast networks still deliver 25-30% of
U.S. homes with their live feeds every night?
Your are getting confused with what a cord cutter is.
Those who don't give a crap about live linear TV are cord cutters. Like
yourself they are comfortable with the table scraps that are free, or choose to
spend their entertainment dollars on alternatives.
People who are switching from a facilities based MVPD service to an Internet
VMVPD service ARE NOT cord cutters. They are simply early adopters of the next
big thing in TV distribution.
Want live news? No problem! Get it online (e.g. CBSN) or get it OTA. Why pay
a 5X price premium? (Have to repeat things many times.)
BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT THE LIVE STREAMS BERT.
You've never understood statistics, Craig, nor have you ever understood trend
lines. Your arguments have always been based on what people do today, a
snapshot in time, or on conveniently forgetting numbers that we've discussed
many times over. That's why I started saving the important links. Otherwise,
you would be back to claiming that only 4% of TV is viewed online, and you
would still be claiming that HDTV is a "niche market." Tell my it ain't so.
Give it up Bert. We are in the middle of another technology evolution, noting
more. People are paying more for TV entertainment than EVER, and this is not
going to change.
And a growing number of people couldn't care less.
Yup. But the majority of U.S. homes are producing the highest profit levels
EVER for the congloms. Local stations are hanging onto profitability, in large
measure because their profit levels have been higher than most companies
historically.
You seem to miss the basics here. The old model was constrained, by
technology, to be formatted (boated) as it was. When trains and then the
automobile were invented, you could also claim that NO TRAIN SERVICE OFFERS
WHAT A STAGECOACH SERVICE OFFERS. And guess what, no one cares.
The old model has been evolving continuously since TV became a reality in the
last century. The basic you keep missing here is that the TV industry is a
legal oligopoly propped up by the politicians. As such it is not threatened at
all. It is just evolving with the times...
Regards
Craig
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