[opendtv] Re: 5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:22:15 -0400
At 2:44 PM -0500 9/7/10, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Like I said initially, Apple would much rather charge you $1.00 per
show that allow you to store it on its hard drive, after receiving
it FOTA. But that is precisely what the author of the article, and
I, were complaining about, Craig. All you are saying is that you
prefer te model that allows Apple to make more money. And yes, of
course, it is possible to add a second box for OTA recording. Which
makes the Apple box that much less appealing.
Apple is charging a negotiated fee that is split with the content
owner. Where it resides is largely irrelevant other than the fact
that it appears that the math favors centralized servers over
distributed storage at the edge in the device. And part of the fee
deals with the fact that you are watching a version WITHOUT
commercials, not the version that was broadcast FOTA. I understand
that with a PVR you can skip the commercials, but you still need to
do this manually.
Clearly you already own a PVR and favor that approach. Fine.
I rent a PVR from the cable company and favor that approach.
Some folks may like Apple's approach.
Different strokes...
Time will tell which approaches prevail.
And we will remain victims until we "JUST SAY NO to the media congloms
and the professional sports franchises that are feasting on our monthly
tithes.
Or you can just say no to the monthly tithes. The guy who buys an
expensive sports car doesn't get a lot of sympathy when he complains
about the high maintenance costs. Know what I mean? The schemes you
seem to advocate, walled gardens of one sort or other every single
time, are a perfect recipe for excesses of greed.
Let's make this perfectly clear Bert.
The approach I favor is ala carte. Let me pay a fair price for the
channels I want.
I do not favor the all you can eat walled garden approach that is
currently dominant via the MVPDs, as it distorts the marketplace,
giving marginal content more money than it deserves and very popular
content like ESPN, WAY MORE money than it deserves.
Unfortuntely, ESPN is one of the channels I do watch, so I am stuck
with the MVPD service, OR I can pay other subscription fees to access
some of this content online.
And this is the conundrum we are all in.
Well most of us...(
Sorry Bert, but if FOTA was the only TV I could access I would not
watch more than the occasional football game.
Either a very large number of us go on a TV strike and force the
marketplace to work again, or we will continue to pay far more than
the products are worth.
Given the fact that the NFL can fill up their stadiums and still
demand a fortune for program rights, I'd say we're screwed, at least
until real alternatives become available.
Regards
Craig
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