| Dumb pipes They already are!
Cable companies receive and retransmit other people's programming. |
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| I was going to make the exact same comment. If the content companies decided to take their business elsewhere, the cable companies would have NOTHING. They are already dumb pipes, they just don't want to admit it. |
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| reply to fifty nine
That one always makes me laugh. Unless you count filler like the Golf Channel and regional sports Comcast (for example) is little more than a dumb pipe now. They have to pay to get the stuff people really want to watch. Once the producers figure out a way to make more money by cutting out the cable middleman, the cable video cash cow is hamburger.
Time Warner is dumping its cable operation. If the content creators (like TW) felt that cable had long-term legs this would not be happening. Content is king, no matter how it gets to you. Cable could very well find itself as irrelevant at VHS in 10 years. |
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 IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman
join:2000-09-20
Washington, DC
kudos:1 | Caps and overage charges is a way to stay "relevant"... |
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