toby10;673026 Wrote: > Once the content owners (networks, broadcasters) see their revenues > slipping they will stop allowing internet broadcasting, some already do > this. > Or they will start charging for internet broadcasting, effectively > swapping cable/sat services for internet services. > > Cable/sat companies pay big bucks to these content owners. Cable/sat = > money to content owners. Internet = no money to content owners (in many > cases). > So either the internet content will disappear or you will pay for it > via internet. Either way, we'll pay for it, as we should. ;)
that is all and well as it should be, but the content providers and content owners are just as confused as the music industry on how to provide for the user it all a big mess rigth now. Nobody is going to give consummers the absolute flexibility to shedule and cherrypick their own Tv experience, it to hard to sell the adds then, they depend on formats that the add buyers can understand like " day time TV" or a geographical or cultural context. don't forget that the big money in TV comes from the comercials nobody would afford TV if it where all paid by the subscription , thats a fraction of the costs involved. So the TV exist to expose you to comercials, your favorite TV show is a tool to have you sitting there :) They must reinvent how to sell add space in internet based TV. at first we will simply see cable TV 2.0 but you stick an ehternet wire into the box. more flexible solution that really use the internet will eventually emerge later much later . I'm just thinking about how much potential add space they sold via my cabel TV subscription, to get some channel I want a bunch of other cr*p is bundled to it in a package, possibly I sometimes watch a channel I did not really wanted and happen to be exposed to a comercial bingo $$ they won :-/ boxes than can record TV is enough headache for them when people ffwd the comercials... I see a future with even more product placement where you can click on the actors clothes and cars and get conected to some other content, a future where a TV show a comercial and propaganda is the same thing where no pure art exists and all information is disneyfied for your fammily friendly internet experience ;) -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91532 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
