[opendtv] Re: Valve's Newell: How PCs Will Take Over the Living Room

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:39:00 -0500

At 10:12 PM +0000 2/26/13, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
You mentioned that a friend of yours, who is not a sports fan, became a cord cutter. Right? Non sports fans can more easily become cord cutters, because it is specifically sports content that is most hidden inside MVPD walled gardens. If you don't care about sports, you're more likely to find stuff that's of interest outside of the MVPDs.
You are correct, that cord cutters do not support the sports fans. But it is estimated that a very large percentage of MVPD subscribers do not watch ESPN. But they do want other channels that are in the bundle and they pay... 



So, thank the sports fans for subsidizing low-interest programming.


 I'm not certain how Roku makes a profit, as they can't be making
 much on the devices.



 The story suggests that they may get some revenue share, probably
 from partners like Amazon, and perhaps Netflix.
So, they are on the take. Isn't that what I've been saying forever? When companies put out what appears to be deliberately incompetent products, there's usually a good reason for it.
On the take? They are enabling people to watch Netflix and Amazon Prime - why should that NOT get a little compensation for helping these companies reach their customers? 


 As for putting browsers on a TV, clearly you still don;t understand
 that the problem is the User Interface. You can't just sell a TV
 with a keyboard and a mouse.
And everyone and his grandmother is by now comfortable with these, or similar, UIs. Yet you have to go one believing that when it comes to watching TV, these same people suddenly become brain-dead.
No Bert they are NOT comfortable with these interfaces when sitting on the couch or an easy chair. Many are not comfortable with these interfaced when sitting in front of a PC. There is is reason that tablets and touch interfaces are changing the face of computing platforms. 

Regards
Craig
Better tell your buddies at Microsoft to keep propping up XP for a few more years... 


----------------------------------------------------------------------
You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:
- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org 
- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word 
unsubscribe in the subject line.

Other related posts:

  1. Home
  2. opendtv
  3. Archive
  4. 03-2013