[opendtv] Re: Internet pay-TV is coming. Will you care?
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 02:29:52 +0000
Monty Solomon posted:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57616057-93/internet-pay-tv-is-coming-will-you-care/
I think this article gets one thing right for sure:
"Though the eventual effects of a virtual pay-TV service could be good for
consumers, content companies are the clearest, biggest beneficiaries, with more
buyers of their programming entering the market. It explains why media
companies like Discovery, Disney, and Viacom are so convinced that the dawn of
Internet pay-TV is upon us -- they have the most to gain."
If they can't gain, it won't happen.
But I don't understand why journalists are so insistent that "net neutrality"
was struck down by the courts. It sounds like their proclivity for hyperbole
just won't give up. The ONLY thing the courts struck down was the idea that
bandwidth usage had to have no impact on prices, at least from the point of
view of the content source. That's all. Net neutrality would truly have been in
jeopardy, if the courts allowed ISP/MVPD combination services to block the IP
content of their programs, or the IP streams from competing content owners.
Bert
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