Gilitar
join:2000-11-20
Mobile, AL | The death of satellite
Do you guys think that IPTV and On Demand cable will kill satellite? There is no way satellite providers can compete with on demand. The old way of just simply broadcasting may be in trouble. |
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Karl Bode
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| I think they're safe for 5-10 years. It will take a long time for IPTV deployments to hit any kind of critical mass. Besides: despite all the attention given U-Verse, AT&T's largest deployment will be Homezone, which is a DSL/Satellite hybrid service....
Broadband video is going to hurt all of these guys eventually, so it may be a moot point. |
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RadioDoc
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join:2000-05-11
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Despite all the hype most people just want to watch TV, not interact with it. That includes video on demand, which can be a royal pain in the ass to use (Comcast's on this system is broken half the time). IPTV needs a lot more bandwidth than most have at home right now, and neither it's appetite nor the supply is going to change much in the near future.
The current broadcast networks may be in trouble, since they make almost all their money from advertising placed at specific times in specific programs, but that'll change once some other income model becomes viable. Product placement has been around since pictures started to move on screen, and every new technology has been touted as the death of those which preceded it. Radio was supposed to be dead how many times now?
Those TV programs in on-demand systems are produced by those same networks more and more since the prohibition on network ownership was repealed. Universal (NBC) is huge in production. They make money each time a program is shown, no matter what the venue.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to Karl Bode
I agree with you on that one...
In a few years, the 'TV' will be nothing more than a PC with a soft TV (MobiTV, YouTube, IPTV, etc), and the traditional cable/satellite/telco/wireless will be just another data stream |
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