[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Ooyala Sees OTT as Gateway to Broadcast’s Future
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 19:32:21 -0500
Craig wrote:
How is it limited by geography Bert?
Stop this going back to square 1 please, Craig! We've been over this 1000
times. You are limited to what TVE you can participate in, by what neighborhood
you live in. For example, whatever TVE "channel" options or bundles you have
offered to you, and their prices, are dictated to you by Cox. If Comcast has a
better deal, you cannot access that better deal. (Even that obvious concept too
weeks to get across to you, Craig.) Not so with Netflix, not so with Hulu, not
so with Amazon, etc.
You are talking about the underlying MVPD subscription Bert, not the TVE
service.
That's like saying that MVPD service is not geographically dependent, because
anyone has an MVPD they can join. It's a silly argument.
YOU can't buy health Insurance from a company in Virginia either
Another silly argument. The Internet is supposed to be neutral. State
boundaries create non-neutral situations in other aspects of our lives, but
that is not supposed to carry over to the Internet.
Exactly. But these options require something you refuse to do - to pay for
them.
And more incoherent arguments. You're on a roll today, Craig. The simple fact
is that by removing the artificial barriers erected around your TVE options,
any number of different bundles can become available to subscribers. Instead,
as is, TVE mimics the non-neutral legacy MVPD model.
The fact that I'm not addicted to the legacy MVPD model as you are, Craig, is
totally immaterial. What you should be asking yourself, instead, is why MVPDs
should continue to play so nice with each other, by politely staying within
their allotted neighborhoods only.
As long as you have been trained to think this is normal, it might not be
surprising that such questions escape you, I suppose.
Bert
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