[opendtv] Re: UK ISPs to block set-top boxes that illegally live-stream soccer matches
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:08:09 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
But ESPN is NOT going Direct to consumer. And Skipper's boss made it
very clear that this is not going to happen any time soon.
The mere fact that Skipper and Moonves understand the need to change their
colluding ways, in times of Internet competition, proves that even if Craig
doesn't get it, the congloms do. Sling TV, for Disney, was the first step. CBS
All Access was a much bolder step. The locally monopolistic MPVDs of the past
fostered the collusion that makes Craig pay ever higher prices, however the
captains of industry are quite savvy about where the wind is blowing. Craig
won't get it, until years after it has already happened.
Slimmer bundles are inevitable Bert, as I have been trying to teach
you for years...
Nonsense! Slimmer bundles would never have happened, EXCEPT FOR competition
from OTT sites (meaning, competition from the neutral Internet).
The problem has always been BLOATED bundles; the congloms added new
networks for more than a decade,
Precisely, which is why your previous comment was nonsense. And the congloms
could get away with it, because there was no alternative for people such as
yourself. You had to pay up or shut up. Now, instead, many of your fellow MVPD
subscribers are bailing, thanks to new options available. But the MVPDs can
still wring more money out of the inelastic die-hards like Craig.
All of this is entirely obvious and predictable, Craig. And there is no need to
go on about "oligopolies" and "politicians" to understand any of it.
Occam's razor: the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one.
Bert
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