[opendtv] Re: TVE definition
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 20:06:41 -0400
Craig wrote:
Just because something is technically possible does not make it
legal or permissible from a business perspective.
No need to belabor this, Craig. Like I said, pay Dish a consultation fee,
and they will explain how it's done. These are silly excuses you're making
up. If these MVPDs wanted to unwall themselves, they'd have no trouble at
all doing so. Not sure why you feel this compulsion to make up excuses for
them.
You are correct that the MVPDs and content owners are tying the
TVE Internet sites to the sale of the rights for the linear channels,
The only problem is that Craig doesn't get the motivation.
So stop with the crap about not grasping what is going on.
I'll stop only when you show evidence that you get it, Craig. As opposed to
sounding like a well-trained mouthpiece. Or do you not notice how you sound?
You seem to belabor the obvious, and miss the big picture. Everyone
understands what TVE is by now, Craig. No need to go on and on about what it
is. The simple fact is, Dish with Sling TV, HBO with HBO Now, not to mention
all the obvious others, have gotten beyond this dogged attachment to the old
local monopoly model. And instead, the other MVPDs are doing all they can to
keep that old model alive. Even to the point of discouraging usage of OTT
sites with data caps.
Here's a thought. If enough households opt out of the MPEG-2 TS broadcast
streams altogether, giving the ISP/MVPD that much more spectrum to use for
2-way service, would those capacity caps ease? Or instead, do you think
there's nothing in there for the MVPD, to push for such a change? That's
what I think.
You have been making this point for a long time Bert. Many months,
if not the past few years. But it is you who fails to comprehend that
this is a very deliberate business decision between the MVPDs and
the content owners.
I fail to see nothing at all. I'm the one explaining to you why they make
this decision, to retain their local monopoly, to keep the welfare program
going, and you seem to not understand what I'm saying. I'm telling you that
even people like John Skipper, ESPN, have understood, for at least the past
year, that they have to get beyond this old model, and you spend your time
denying that they ever say these things. Even after they are quoted to you.
Iger did not say anything, a couple of days ago, that Skipper hasn't been
saying for the past year, Craig. They are keeping their eyes open.
Perhaps you don't understand when I say "to keep the welfare program going"?
You still don't get it. Dish had no special negotiating talent. They
are not operating under franchise agreements with geographic
restrictions.
Sounds like a feeble excuse. Franchise agreements don't bind a content OWNER
from selling his product in new ways. The cabled MVPDs, who have a clear
role to play in the future regardless, have no big incentive YET to try to
get agreements allowing them to branch out. Staying walled up suits them
just fine still, so they don't even need to try. The DBS companies have lots
of incentive to make drastic changes. Dish took this unwalled Sling TV tack,
and DirecTV instead is retrenching into the old formula.
When someone is well supported on a welfare program, his incentive to go and
compete in the workforce is understandably diminished, or even annihilated.
This is why TVE is modeled as it is, Craig. No need to drum up these
"license terms" excuses. Licensing terms get changed in a heartbeat, when
the owners have an incentive to do so.
Bert
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