Marvin,
I don't know if the BBC Home Service still does it, but back in the day, there used to be dead air between programs is they did not fill the allotted time. This was never the case in America except that stations used to go dark around midnght or 2 am up until around 1980. They'd shut down until about 6 am. I still remember the test patterns I saw as a kid waiting for the Saturday morning cartoons to come on.
Perhaps, as Giuseppe Verdi said of Richard Wagner's music, "Torniamo al antico. Sara un progresso."
Ted.
I am not sure that Google will sell the set-top box business, it is a good business that Cisco paid a lot to get in the playground. Google was rumored before that it will keep MMI's patents and sell the whole hardware division. Now it turns out Google kept the MMI hardware group.
The first try at Apple TV was a flat out fail, but the future of its newest form has yet to be seen.
As for Google, they are already looking to sell off the set top box section of the Moto Mobility deal, they dont see that segment of the market as the right fit for Google TV. they want to be right in the TV or the software on a 3rd part OTT device.
Apple TV has been around for quite a while, and it was not well receipted by consumers. I won't rule out Google yet, especially considering their acquisition of Motorola Mobility. MMI is the number 1 set top box seller in this country, it shall help Google to gain some footage.
@Value Hiker,
Netflix has had their own issues when dealing with content providers, so I don't see them being the front runner here, unless things change for them. and live TV really doesnt fit their model right now anyway, it would require a big change to make that happen for them.
Apple and their Apple TV product might be a good choice if it were to take off, as would Google, but it is looking more and more like Google TV will be dead in the water before too long.
So, we need someone like Apple to break this stupid combined sale. Now we don't need to buy a whole album to just get one song we love, all thanks to Apple. Maybe Netflix is a good candidate to break this kind of combined sale
ProfR,
your right, that conversation needs to happen, but given the way business seems to be done when it comes to negotiations between service providers and networks, the model will have to be all but dead before the networks are willing to revisit the issue, and even then it will take several failed tries before they come to an agrement.
But no one look at web content sneaking up behind them.....
Spin
ProfR
6/20/2012 3:01:25 PM
Ah - that is a good question. If the news is bad, then you need to put the best light on the news that you can. Not sure who really does that - maybe some combination of Marketing and Business Executives.
Re: TV goes dark
ProfR
6/20/2012 2:59:43 PM
TelecomFreq,
I know that is what happens today. However, as the number of cable subs continues to fall, they cable cos need to have a different discussion with the networks and channel owners. They need to talk about the benefits of unbundling.
ProfR,
The reasons that cable companies are unable to unbundle there video offerings has more to do with how they are sold the video. Many times when they buy the rights to a popular channel they are also required to carry many more not so popular channels owned by the same network. Not all channels are like that, but enough are where it would not be possible or cost effective to offer individual channels to customers.
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