[opendtv] Re: Apple TV: Eddy Cue on streaming video and TV channels - Nov. 6, 2015

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 02:51:28 +0000

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

It is true that the congloms, like CBS, can create their own sites.
How's that work'n out for Les?

Apparently very well, and they expect even better with the new Star Trek
series. So once again, get off this "second revenue stream" stuff, to justify
legacy formula bundles. The congloms can and do compete head to head now.

Bundling is not going away,

But your definition of it is obsolete. Now you have to get used to the new
definition. Netflix "bundles," CBS All Access "bundles," Hulu "bundles." Sure,
redefine the word that way, and your "bundling isn't going away" becomes just
another banality.

Are you finally waking up from your fifty year nap? They don't need
a second revenue stream from subscribers, because subscribers have
always paid a premium for their service.

Equally, congloms that use the Internet DO NOT need to insist on your "second
revenue stream." Get it now, Craig? Just as HBO doesn't. Just as CBS All Access
doesn't.

CBS All Access is an experiment

It's the future. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if others start up their own,
just as HBO did with HBO Now.

You are getting a bit ahead of yourself. We were all playing with
Internet video back in 2005. But few were actually watching
program length video streams;

Speak for yourself. This was another trend in the making that you evidently
didn't see. I was watching catch-up episodes that way. And I figured that
before long, I'd be connecting a PC to the TV set. It took a few more years,
but it did happen that way. Why? Because it was an obvious big improvement for
TV content delivery. Even if in those years, pre-H.264 streams over the
Internet, image quality was not very good.

OTT did not become a significant competitive "threat" until at
least 2010, if not later.

2010 is when I dedicated a PC to the TV, for this job. H.264 had made image
quality very acceptable on a TV sized screen. Old news, Craig.

Who is controlling these deals Bert?

It is not the box providers, just it was not the cable STBs that
drove the unending increases in the price of the MVPD bundles.

What a blind spot you have, Craig. I don't remember LG or Samsung, or RCA or
Admiral before them, or Dell or HP or Lenovo, having to make any special
"deals" with any conglom, to stream their content. You still don't get it.

The fact that the networks provide FOTI streams of some of their
shows is irrelevant to this discussion.

ROTFL. Nor does Amazon, or Hulu, have to make special deals with Dell or HP, or
any of the others.

It seems that nobody cares about access to the broadcast networks
but you.

Laughing again. That's why the blackouts cause such a stir among you
MVPD-addicts.

That's not up to Apple. If Amazon wants to sell stuff through Apple
TV they can create a app for their stores.

That's funny. I guess Dell must be a lot more clever, then. I seem to be able
to do all of this without making up silly excuses why it can't be done.

Bert



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