| hmmm Somehow just because of the nature of SDV, I doubt TWC moved highly watched channels to SDV. If they moved channels that were watched by most of their customers, it would completely negate the whole advantage of SDV technology because the channel would still be sent pretty much all the time taking up that bandwidth.
Now... I could see them maybe moving some lesser watched channels to SDV that just so happen to be the type of niche programming that technophiles like to watch.
One of the irony's is that people using TIVO's are not a majority of a cable company's customers just because a lot of consumers either don't see a reason to buy their own DVR, or don't have the money to invest in the equiptment. It's just that the type of customer who is more likely to purchase a TiVo is also more likely the be the type of customer wanting to view the niche programming and channels that are most suited to an SDV migration.
Generally, if a channel is not the type of channel to be watched almost constantly by a large group of customers, then it's a perfect candidate for SDV. Considering HDTV's are not even owned by the majority of households yet, it makes perfect sense from a customer ratio standpoint that certain HDTV niche programming (like sports channels which may have only 1 or 2 people watching them on every other node unless there is a major sporting event being aired) be converted to SDV. |
