[opendtv] Re: Networks Threaten To Pull Channels Off The Air If Aereo & Dish Win Lawsuits
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:16:02 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> The networks are not threatening to shut down. They are
> threatening to take their chances with the subscription
> services that now deliver their content to about 85% of
> U.S. homes.
And dropping.
We've seen in an article recently how this model is predicted to be going the
other way now. Some of the networks are merely trying to slow down the
inevitable.
Take someone like in younger generation, or myself, who are "cable nevers."
Under what twisted logic could we justify getting a subscription to a cable
company, when we don't use one even for broadband access that we receive over
Internet broadband? It makes no sense at all.
To the non-MVPD-addict, subscribing to the MVPD makes sense only if you intend
to benefit from their physical distribution network. The walled garden.
What Fox and others think I'll do is to pay, say, Cox for their infrastructure
that I NEVER use, then again Verizon for the broadband pipe I DO use, for the
privilege of watching Fox shows.
Think again.
Cable addicts are their own worst enemy.
Bert
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