[opendtv] =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[opendtv]_Re:_TV_Technology:_Ooyala_Sees_OTT_as_Ga? =?utf-8?Q?teway_to_Broadcastâs_Future?Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 23:38:19 -0500
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mar 5, 2016, at 7:32 PM, Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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.
That's simply NOT true Bert.
For example, whatever TVE "channel" options or bundles you have offered to
you, and their prices, are dictated to you by Cox.
The TVE options available to me are based on the Cox bundle I subscribe to.
There is no charge for TVE.
There are differences in the prices of MVPD service and the bundles that are
offered from different providers, but these differences are minor except for
the skinny bundle offered by Dish Sling.
The only possible geographic limitations may be regional sports networks that
are not offered across the U.S. The nationwide networks with companion TVE
services are available from ALL MVPDs except Sony Play Station Vue. You and I
both have access to exactly the same TVE services.
If Comcast has a better deal, you cannot access that better deal.
That has NOTHING to do with TVE.
(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.
Totally irrelevant. They are not MVPD services.
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.
That depends on the MVPD service - cable and FIOS services are geographically
constrained because of franchise laws. DBS services are not geographically
constrained, but there are some locations that may not have access based on
view to the satellites. VMVPD services are constrained in other ways. Sony is
only in a few cities and lacks some popular channels; Dish Sling is available
anywhere you can access broadband, but it is missing many popular networks, and
thus the companion TVE services.
Another silly argument. The Internet is supposed to be neutral.
It is. TVE is not neutral - it is only available to MVPD subscribers.
State boundaries create non-neutral situations in other aspects of our lives,
but that is not supposed to carry over to the Internet.
And it generally does not. You can access the web sites for health insurance
companies in Virginia and Delaware - but you cannot purchase insurance from
them because you live in Maryland. There are some Internet sites that employ
geoblocking, and many that optimize the content you see based on your location.
This has nothing to do with network neutrality. It has everything to do with
the businesses that operate via the Internet, their business models, and any
geographic restrictions on these businesses.
Nothing about the Internet restricts access to TVE services if you pay for the
companion MVPD service; as long as you are accessing a TVE service within the
United States.
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.
It does not "mimic" the MVPD model Bert. IT IS PART OF IT.
You cannot subscribe to a specific TVE service, just as you cannot buy channels
on an ala carte basis. You gain access to companion TVE services based on what
you buy from a MVPD.
The fact that I'm not addicted to the legacy MVPD model as you are, Craig, is
totally immaterial.
It is absolutely material. You cannot access a TVE site unless you subscribe to
the same network with a MVPD service. I buy some networks from Cox. i do not
buy HBO, so I cannot access the HBO Go TVE service.
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.
Because of the franchise agreements they operate under and the geographic
limitations in the contracts they have with the content owners. I do not doubt
for a second that they would like to compete outside their franchise areas.
As long as you have been trained to think this is normal, it might not be
surprising that such questions escape you, I suppose.
What escapes me is your inability to understand how things work.
Regards
Craig
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