On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Scott Howard wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Craig Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Pay TV is dying, it never really worked in this country anyway > > as Free-To-Air TV was mostly good enough, but it's dying even > > in America where it was hugely successful - nearly universal > > subscription almost on the level of "if you could afford it, you had > > it" . > > Dead in the US? I think not...
not dead (still far from dead), but slowly dying. traditional pay tv over cable is already been replaced by IPTV offerings. it'll hang on in the US in areas which don't get decent broadband services, but i'll be surprised if it's anything but a niche player in areas with good BB service in 10 years time. cable tv never really got off the ground in this country, so will die sooner. of course, the big cable tv networks in the US are also broadband internet providers. they'll gradulally lose their TV subscriptions. hence the huge bun-fight over net neutrality. cable TV networks are used to absolute control, and they don't like that they lose that with the internet - their customers can (gasp!) access content not mediated by them!!! > Yes, there is certainly an increase in people moving away from pay > TV, but with over 100 million US households paying for TV, calling it > "dying" couldn't be further from the truth. At most, it's got the > sniffles... cable tv technology is obsolete, and subscription rates are already falling in areas with reliable fast broadband (which provides an internet-based alternative) craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> BOFH excuse #130: new management _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
