[opendtv] Re: This from another (open) thread - IPTV on LinkedIn
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:03:32 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> MVPDs use STBs to protect their service and generate recurring
> revenue streams. Efforts to build cable card and other features
> into TV sets have been a huge failure; another example of how an
> oligopoly can use its power to resist change.
>
> MVPDs have NOTHING to do with Smart TVs and "smart dongles" like
> the Roku box or Apple TV.
Another example of transmitting the same comment, rather than following the
thread.
Look at the subject line. This discussion is about Internet TV. With Internet
TV, the idea that STBs would remain goes away. The Internet medium feeds too
many appliances for which an STB makes no sense. The "TV set" becomes just
another one of these many appliances.
Therefore, assuming MVPDs want to remain relevant, they will have to easily
accommodate the new IP appliances, including the new "large screen appliances."
The idea that this interface box, inflicted on their customers for decades,
will remain relevant goes away. That STB, at best, becomes a modem/IP router,
for the home. The content must then be fanned out as STANDARD IP.
Feel free to follow the different threads, Craig.
Bert
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