This feels like a super-serious standards body trying to define the successor to the audio CD… in 2003, when the third generation iPod is really starting to pick up steam.
By the time they come up with the software solution they’ve been promising for, gosh, well over a decade now– nobody will care, because the cable TV business model will have disintegrated entirely.
Comcast’s response was worth a chuckle, though, as always. They’re just so brazen.
This has the potential to be an enormous improvement for consumers. Hopefully the lobbyists don’t get in the way of progress. IMHO the only requirement is a downloadable “cablecard” that allows access to ANY TV provider on ANY device (well, as long as some basic technical standards are met). Imagine the competition if any of us could get Verizon, Comcast, Cox, etc. no matter where we lived. I doubt that would happen, but it would be nice…at least from a consumer perspective.
Yeah, loved the helpful comments from Jay Rolls and Mark Hess. Fiddling while Rome burns.
If they were actually open to innovation on top of their delivery platform, meaning the ability to define an entirely new GUI which might not even *have* channels, or whatever, they might have a shot.
As it is they will eventually be overwhelmed by the OTT alternatives. But its going to take a long f’ing time. And in the interim we’re going to be stuck with the current heaping pile.
Computr games generally is a in style item on many youngsters’
Christmas want listing. Social video games are often very simple
and eaasy to play.
Some of TiVo’s thoughts on the matter:
http://investordiscussionboard.com/boards/tivo/tivo-fcc-filing-pounding-table-3rd-party-access-mvpd-sources
This feels like a super-serious standards body trying to define the successor to the audio CD… in 2003, when the third generation iPod is really starting to pick up steam.
By the time they come up with the software solution they’ve been promising for, gosh, well over a decade now– nobody will care, because the cable TV business model will have disintegrated entirely.
Comcast’s response was worth a chuckle, though, as always. They’re just so brazen.
This has the potential to be an enormous improvement for consumers. Hopefully the lobbyists don’t get in the way of progress. IMHO the only requirement is a downloadable “cablecard” that allows access to ANY TV provider on ANY device (well, as long as some basic technical standards are met). Imagine the competition if any of us could get Verizon, Comcast, Cox, etc. no matter where we lived. I doubt that would happen, but it would be nice…at least from a consumer perspective.
Yeah, loved the helpful comments from Jay Rolls and Mark Hess. Fiddling while Rome burns.
If they were actually open to innovation on top of their delivery platform, meaning the ability to define an entirely new GUI which might not even *have* channels, or whatever, they might have a shot.
As it is they will eventually be overwhelmed by the OTT alternatives. But its going to take a long f’ing time. And in the interim we’re going to be stuck with the current heaping pile.
Computr games generally is a in style item on many youngsters’
Christmas want listing. Social video games are often very simple
and eaasy to play.