[opendtv] Re: Variety.com: Comcast Offers HBO Without Other
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:39:31 -0400
On Mar 19, 2014, at 6:19 PM, "Manfredi, Albert E"
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>> It would be revolutionary IF IT WERE TRUE.
>>
>> But you continue to read into this statement something IT IS NOT.
>>
>> The correct interpretation is:
>>
>> As long as you can keep the customer connected to the cord and they
>> pay for HBO delivered via that cord, you can also allow the subscriber
>> to access HBO Go via the Internet.
>
> And you miss the part that matters!
>
> The words say, we will make HBO available as a stand-alone channel, as long
> as the MVPD network also OFFERS a paid TV package of some sort. Which means,
> Craig, the customer can be buying only the IP broadband service from this
> MVPD/ISP, using that service only as pure ISP service, and we'll sell the guy
> HBO stand-alone. The customer DOES NOT have to buy any TV bundle at all.
Sorry Bert, but you are wrong. NOBODY is offering HBO Go without ALSO requiring
a subscription to HBO delivered by "the cord."
Period! End of discussion.
> This is huge. Especially given that the majority of US broadband households
> get their broadband via an MVPD/ISP these days (I include FiOS in this). It's
> basically HBO saying, we understand that the MVPD walled gardens are becoming
> unwalled thanks to their Internet broadband service, and we are ready to play
> in that arena. Who is being left out, Craig? Not many. Perhaps ADSL users
> like me, but that's about it. Even networks like AT&T Uverse, with ADSL2+ and
> IPTV service, would qualify.
>
This is a HUGE misunderstanding on your part.
Regards
Craig
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