cableties
Premium
join:2005-01-27
 ·Verizon FIOS
| I'd rather someone else deal with the cost...
of hosting...
of bandwidth...
of format...
of dealing with customers...
of liability...
Just license and collect. Is it really cheaper to control than to sublet? And does NBC really have that much content that is justifiably more profitable than infrastructure support? |
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Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ
| NBC doesn't know what it wants. Their iTunes offerings were making a fair amount of money and were popular... so let's yank it and stop making money. They are partners with NewsCorp on that Hulu website that is supposed to offer the programs to people... so let's create a NBC Direct to offer the same programming to people that Hulu is going to offer... it makes no sense. If they are going to compete, they need to stop competing with THEMSELVES and give customers what they want. I'm sure NewsCorp is so happy they decided to partner with the clueless managers over at NBC who couldn't even run a hot dog stand. |
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ElJay
join:2004-03-17
 ·Great Works Internet
| reply to cableties
NBC has no clue what they are doing. This is made clear by the fact that they expect everybody to gleefully download and install their own player to get the content.
The press release says future versions of the software will have a "closed P2P" system. I'm thinking this is because NBC either doesn't have the capacity or want to pay for the bandwidth that these crippled video files will consume. |
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