[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Netflix Users Watch 10 TV Shows a Week
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 01:43:36 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Prove it.
I'd love to if I could find any stats.
Exactly! Just saying something does not make it so, Craig. I keep reminding you
of this.
Obviously some portion of the people watching Netflix on their TV
are using a PC, some are using streaming boxes, some are using game
consoles, some smart TVs, etc.
Yes, and these are lumped under streaming to the TV set.
The important distinction is not how the stream gets to the TV.
And those stats do not make that distinction. That's the whole point. When they
quote the percentage watching online streaming TV content on a TV, they do not
specify how. When they quote the percentage streaming to a PC, they are talking
about people actually watching on their sit-up-straight PC or laptop. That's
why I said that streaming to PCs and laptops is probably much more than the 25%
figure they cited. Some PCs and laptops are sending the images to TV sets (and
they don't necessarily need to be dedicated to this job).
The reality is that the cable industry has a huge installed base
of old, outdated set top boxes deployed. Most have been paid for
several times via the monthly rental fees.
So you have just confirmed what I was saying. First off, parenthetically, the
fact that cable companies have this huge installed base of obsolete equipment
is a problem of their own making. They resisted allowing standards-based
solutions for their STBs, preferring to rent pout their own boxes, so this is
the result. If they had not resisted, then obsoleting old content delivery
techniques would have been a lot easier.
But most importantly, yes indeed, the reason many people are still using the
MPEG-2 TS broadcast streams from their cable, including using the PVR for time
shifting, is because that's all they have and that's all they know! They are
renting these boxes, month after month, and they have not bothered to upgrade
anything. But just as obviously, this is changing steadily, the stats have told
us unequivocally.
Bert
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