[opendtv] Re: Spectrum is too valuable

  • From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:34:04 -0500

Craig wrote:

“I never said a thing about reaching 10 Gbps because that phase of deployment
is
still years away.”

In short, you did not know what DOCSIS 3.1 was all about, and you found it
impossible to inform yourself before arguing aggressively. Something new? Heh.

“In a follow-up post debunking your two points”

You debunked nothing, since those 2 points still hold. I stated explicitly what
two measures DOCSIS takes to achieve 10 Gb/s, I mentioned 10 Gb/s on multiple
occasions, and your best strategy would have been to inform yourself before
arguing. Especially when I provided the link. What could have been easier,
Craig?

“There is no MVPD network Bert. You just invented the term. If you insist on
creating language, at least do it properly. It would have been correct to say
that there are MULTIPLE MVPD networks”

Are you connected to multiple MVPDs, Craig? You are not. You are connected to
only one. That is your MVPD network. It has a headend, which controls
everything you see (except what is now on the NEUTRAL broadband pipe).

So you certainly have a single gatekeeper in the old model. Even if you try to
pretend that you are connected to all 3 MVPDs, a comparison with the virtually
unlimited sources of content from the 2-way internet is absurd, Craig.

“Unfortunately I cannot find any current stats on program ownership, but no
broadcast network owns all of the shows they air.”

CBS is a TV network, Craig. Netflix is primarily a content aggregator, and is
now producing a handful of its own shows as well. Maybe eventually Netflix will
produce as much content as CBS. You don’t need to belabor the obvious. To
compare the original content Netflix produces, with what CBS produces, is silly.

“[Streaming from the congloms] was no earlier than 2008,”

Prove it. I don’t believe you.

Bert

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