rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | Let me guess... ...and the traffic won't count against caps?
Sometimes a company that's good in one line of business (LOB) can stretch/reinvent itself somewhere else. Far too often things like this end up a big failure and stock holders should slam the crap out of the board and executive management when it goes thud. |
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 ArrayListnetbus developerPremium
join:2005-03-19
Evanston, IL
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 intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
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| Kung Fu Randall says...
my favorite genre is fighting games....obviously
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| GameTap Didn't Time Warner try this with GameTap already? And then sold it to some french company to get gutted to a shell of its former self?
I liked GameTap, I subscribed to GameTap for several years. They had a great client, some great games, and a reasonable price. But then they started dumping games (well more likely publishers wanted more money), dumped the original content in the client, and dropped a ton of features. The last straw for me was after the transition from TWC the new company dropped the client all together for this super crappy web interface that never worked right.
It had such potential but it always seemed like Time Warner wasn't in it for the long haul and if it hadn't turned a massive profit in the first year they wanted rid of it. |
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| skip one problem and move on to another! Why don't all these companies try to fix their "supposed bandwidth saturation problem" first? See how this is going to work. They will start the service. Then realize people are slowing down the system and limit everyone to 3 hours of use a month. |
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| Unless you are playing pong! That will get you 6 hours! |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | reply to milkman82
I understand what these companies are doing. They are looking for new sources of revenue and growth. Nothing wrong with that but if they are admitting their core product that makes them what they are has reached maturity and/or is in decline, they should buy something to grow rather than build-from-scratch. |
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| Israeli cable TV provider, Hot, Israeli cable TV provider, Hot, has? or had? or was planing something like this in 09.
»mobo.co.il/cable-provider-offers···top-box/ |
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 skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
join:2012-01-26
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kudos:2 | Is anyone at these MSOs under 300 years old? So how many subscriber dollars are being set afire with this epic fail? Who are these marketing people who think there is a market for this? |
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Re: skip one problem and move on to another! said by rradina:They are looking for new sources of revenue and growth. they should buy something to grow rather than build-from-scratch.
Makes me wonder if one of them will buy a game company, like Electronic Arts.
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Re: Is anyone at these MSOs under 300 years old? Finally - it took only 31 years but it sounds like the cable companies have finally perfected the Intellivision PlayCable!
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayCable
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-oMtXSVKyU |
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 mmay149qPremium
join:2009-03-05
Dallas, TX
kudos:48 | What's sad about this Is that these providers scream and yell that the 2% are always hoarding bandwidth and causing issues for everyone else, so they need caps and overages to overcome this, but then turn around and try to "innovate" things like this that are bandwidth hoarders to get more than 2% on the "bandwidth apocalypse wagon"... I wish stupid people in our country would just wake up and see the writing on the wall, so tired of having to pay for people letting them get away with this......
Matt
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| OnLive imploded? Hardly, they just sold the majority of their stock to someone else. they're still live and well and doing business. Their OnLine Desktop is a HUGE hit as well. and who said AT&T wasn't still an investor? they could have kept their shares as other companies did. |
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Re: Let me guess... said by rradina:...and the traffic won't count against caps?
Sometimes a company that's good in one line of business (LOB) can stretch/reinvent itself somewhere else. Far too often things like this end up a big failure and stock holders should slam the crap out of the board and executive management when it goes thud.
And stockholders and the board will also slam them for not finding ways to increase revenue?
So what do you propose they do instead of poo-pooing something before you even know how it will work or what it will be? |
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Re: GameTap No, TWC didn't own GameTap, Time Warner/TBS did. 2 separate companies. And it was sold off to the French company in 2008, long after TWC was no longer part of Time Warner. |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | reply to skuv
Re: Let me guess... Buy something that's already successful and is symbiotic with their current LOB. |
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Re: What's sad about this Who said that 2% would use this service? |
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Re: Is anyone at these MSOs under 300 years old? that and sega channel is just the game in a looping data steam.
And it was dropped to make room for more TV channels and the game carts did not have the ram for the bigger games. |
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Re: GameTap I can't keep these splits and acquisitions straight. |
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mmay149qPremium
join:2009-03-05
Dallas, TX
kudos:48 | reply to hottboiinnc
Re: What's sad about this said by hottboiinnc:Who said that 2% would use this service?
If you're a family with kids, and your ISP is constantly spamming you in your email and actual mail service with flyers for $15 a month gaming service, and your kids can get the same games as the X-box 360 and PS3, are you going to pay $300 for a 360/PS3 plus $60 a game, + $10 a month for X-Box live service? Or pay $15 a month + possibly $10 - $20 a game? (if they even charge for the games) All I'm saying is I can see this getting way bigger than 2% if they market it right and guarantee the ability of multiplayer. But then again if they do get this off the ground I bet they consider it a "service" and as such don't count it towards the cap, or attempt to do that anyway.
Matt
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