Time Warner Cable (TWC) was spun out of TWX earlier this year. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Craig Birkmaier wrote: > >> History will take note of the cultural wars that took place in >> TW/AOL after Steve Case bought Time Warner. Rather than becoming >> the marriage of web and content that Steve imagined, Time Warner >> led the anit-web backlash among the big media... >> >> Now both companies are struggling. > > Seems to me that history has been kinder to Time Warner than AOL. AOL > was one of the early ISPs, and made the best of an era when access via > the commodity POTS telco link was still viable. So they could gather up > subscribers nationwide, leveraging off the ubiquitous telco POTS lines. > But now they have become one of zillions of web portals, as far as I can > tell. > > Time Warner instead has the more scarce resource, the physical > broadband/cable network, and they are now better capable of providing > the ISP function, and can also competie directly with those telcos. > > So even though they might have been on the "wrong side" of the debate > about putting more content on the web, for the foreseeable future, I > think they are the ones that landed on their feet. > > Bert > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.