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RE: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11
From: <michael.dillon () bt com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:00:14 -0000
[Perhaps my viewpoint is skewed because channel-delivered TV content in Canada is horrible; it's almost as bad as American TV. I seem to think that broadcast TV in the UK more tolerable, although I haven't really seen it since I left the UK in the mid 90s so perhaps I'm just deluded.]
We've gone digital in the UK (DVB-T) which includes an electronic program guide. So the average consumer CAN buy a PVR with digital receivers (yes plural) which they simply plug in, scan for channels, and use. Pause and rewind live TV, record programs according to the EPG. And it is all free, i.e. funded by TV commercials just like analog TV was. Of course, the cable companies, Sky satellite TV and the telephone company (ADSL provider) are offering some sort of PVR-like box with a selection of broadcast and pre-recorded content. Note: I happen to work for said telephone company (BT) but I have nothing to do with either our DSL or TV offerings.
Cursory consideration of your examples above provide clues as to which way the scale is tipping; radio has for a long time been a way to promote record sales, and the video stores here are now half-full with boxed sets of TV series on DVD.
Here too. Especially at Christmas time. I've noticed the same thing in Russia where homegrown TV series are in every video shop.
It looks to me like people increasingly want their content on-demand, and that there's a growing industry supplying that demand.
And I don't think it depends on culture. People are people all over the world. Everyone wants to control their own time. Everyone wants predictability of their outgoings, i.e. trend towards flat rates. So shifting TV from a flat-fee all-you-can-eat broadcast model to a pay-per-use network model is a non-starter. It will never be more than a drop in the bucket. --Michael Dillon
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- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11, (continued)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Peter Beckman (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Brandon Butterworth (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Geo. (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Paul Vixie (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Randy Bush (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Geo. (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Joe Abley (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 bmanning (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Brandon Butterworth (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Brandon Butterworth (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Joe Abley (Feb 12)
- RE: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 michael.dillon (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Scott Weeks (Feb 12)
- Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 Brandon Butterworth (Feb 13)