[opendtv] Re: Dish offer for Sprint

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:32:51 +0000

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

>> The article was about DBS broadcast to homes, and Dish making
>> deals with Sprint for Internet distribution. What I responded
>> with was that the DBS broadcast portion of that model was
>> essentially becoming unnecessary,

> Sorry Bert, but this is simply wrong on several points.

Will you read the freakin' article? It makes a big deal about retention of the 
satellite broadcast to homes. That's the part I was responding to.

> To argue that DBS is becoming unnecessary is to say that ALL
> MVPDs are becoming unnecessary.

While what you said is obviously true, except for MVPDs that reinvent 
themselves as ISPs, I was very obviously emphasizing the technical question of 
retaining the satellite one-way broadcast signal.

Bert

 
 
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