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 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| cable-tv fantasyland Unless they've been sticking their heads in the sand, this will not work, or stand. The HISTORICAL TREND is for content to be MORE available.. NOT LESS!!! Do you REALLY think that in the age of bittorrent and the broadband deployments we have today (in major metro areas) that companies will be able to become content-exclusive walled gardens? Sure, and the price they will pay in spades will be piracy. I don't give a rats ass if it's espn, nfl, hockey, ppv, or first run movies.. when you have an exclusivity deals and charge high prices.. you lose in the digital age. Jacking up prices for basic content is also going to force the hand of consumers to cancel their cable tv subscriptions as well. Not only that, but it's becoming easier and easier to transfer content from the computer to home theater systems throughout the home with high quality and without a cable-tv service provider. In 5 years, I can imagine a $500 box (about the price of these rip-off set-tops you rent for $5-30 a month) that acts as a home digital media server with 5 Terabytes of storage which takes the place of your cable-tv service and can grab OTA broadcasts as a DVR for playback. The (industry) attempts to get more blood from the stone consumers is putting cable tv mso's in cable-tv fantasy land. |
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1 edit | Sunday ticket It makes sence for dtv to have the Sunday ticket over verizon or comcast. The reason being ALMOST anyone can get dtv, not everyone can get verizon, comcast or twc.
Amagine if sport bars couldn't get it because they don't have verizon. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA
1 edit | Sunday Ticket is different! The NFL is the content provider that owns Sunday Ticket and they are not are a content distributor. A content distributor that owns exclusive content that doesn't have to be shared is clearly using anti-competitive means to gain an advantage. |
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| said by Sammer: A content distributor that owns exclusive content that doesn't have to be shared is clearly using anti-competitive means to gain an advantage. Why? Are you saying that Verizon doesn't have enough money to build their own network and distribute exclusive content? Isn't business generally anti-competitive to begin with? Isn't Cablevision's ultimate plan to have more customers than FiOS? Why can't they differentiate with programming?
It seems most of the posts in this thread seem to imply there is a god given right to all programming, particularly sports. Next folks will demand McDonald's carry the Whopper because it's anti-competitive if they don't. |
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