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Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks
From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young () jsyoung net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:01:04 -0500
On 17/12/2010, at 1:17 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
---- Original Message -----From: "JC Dill" <jcdill.lists () gmail com>On 17/12/10 4:54 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote:I do believe that video over the Internet is about to change the cable business in a very deep and possibly traumatic way.+1 It's clear that this is a major driving factor in the Comcast/L3/Netflix peering/transit issue. Comcast is obviously looking for ways to fill the looming hole in their revenue chart as consumers turn off Cable and get their TV/video entertainment delivered via the internet.The more I look at this, the more it looks like "pharmaceuticals bought from Canada are cheaper than ones purchased in America -- and they will be *just as long* as only a minority of Americans buy them there. As soon as *everyone* in America is buying their drugs cross-border, the prices will go right back up to what they were paying here." This is what's gonna happen with Comcast, too; if their customers drop CATV, then they're going to have to raise their prices -- and the cable networks themselves will have *no* way to collect revenue; the cable systems being their collection agent network. This Can't End Well. Cheers, -- jra
if the retail price of the content is inflated to support the distribution mechanism (e.g. cable, dsl, fios) and the provider doesn't own the content the result is inevitable. content owners could care less about how the content reaches eyeballs as long as it does so reliably. Comcast/NBC merger in the face of comcast/L3-Netflix fight gets interesting. jy
Current thread:
- RE: Alacarte Cable and Geeks, (continued)
- RE: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Frank Bulk (Dec 16)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Jeff Wheeler (Dec 16)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo (Dec 17)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks JC Dill (Dec 17)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Jay Ashworth (Dec 17)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Jon Lewis (Dec 17)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Lamar Owen (Dec 17)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Robert E. Seastrom (Dec 18)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Kevin Oberman (Dec 18)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks William Allen Simpson (Dec 19)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Jeffrey S. Young (Dec 17)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Jeroen van Aart (Dec 17)
- Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks Andrew Odlyzko (Dec 18)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style JC Dill (Dec 16)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Jay Ashworth (Dec 16)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Matthew Petach (Dec 16)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style mikea (Dec 16)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Mikel Waxler (Dec 16)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style JC Dill (Dec 16)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Mikel Waxler (Dec 16)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style JC Dill (Dec 16)