[opendtv] Re: Smartphones encourage mobile user churn
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:26:54 -0400
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> No Bert. They are dragging their feet because they make tons of
> money leasing these devices.
Of course, that too. To AT&T, the iPhone has been in essence the same as a
proprietary STB with nice proprietary features that the other MVPDs don't have.
Making the iPhone cellco-agnostic is therefore the same as making STBs
MVPD-agnostic.
> The ability to buy a STB rather than renting it from an MVPD
> would actually make changing services MORE difficult, as each has
> proprietary stuff in the box, so you box would only work with the
> MVPD it is designed to work with.
Come now. The way you make the STBs MVPD-agnostic obviously has to include
writing a standard that the MVPDs must comply with, Craig.
> You may say that cable has an "open standard," but in the cast
> majority of cities in the U.S. there is only one cable system;
> so you alternative is DBS or in some cases a telco service,
> neither of which use the same standards as cable.
Didn't I mention "like DVB-T/C/S"? I thought I had, more than once.
Bert
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