 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to espaeth
Re: STB? - Who Cares I can see how non-US markets being crucial for US-based content providers... but it seems the US market itself is rather flat.
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Pay TV service, at least in the US, has nowhere to go but down.
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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1 edit | said by pnh102:I can see how non-US markets being crucial for US-based content providers... but it seems the US market itself is rather flat.
»news.investors.com/article/62181···loss.htm
Pay TV service, at least in the US, has nowhere to go but down.
Q2 numbers have been the worst in the cycle for the last few years.
See:
Also, 2012 Q1 posted a 494,000 net subscriber increase before the 348,000 loss in Q2 -- so it's still net positive on the year.
Source: »paidcontent.org/2012/05/11/pay-t···d-in-q1/
It's only been relatively flat the last couple years, and that's largely a reflection of the economy.
Still, when you have 100 million subscribers in the US paying for TV, it's pretty easy to see why you'd want to make a device that would appeal to some of them.
Note that the major area of growth is TelcoTV, and Verizon is still using QAM delivery for TV, hence a "cable box" would be usable for them as well. |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | I'm certainly not disputing that the current market for pay TV in the US is huge, it definitely is. I am just not seeing it as a growing industry as it used to be say, 10 or 20 years ago.
But given the price increases and the continuing problems with the economy, I just don't see these numbers increasing as a whole.
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ncbillPremium
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Winston Salem, NC | reply to pnh102
I still pay for TV, but oly per-episode for the 'cable' shows I want, commercial-free, via Amazon Video.
Broadcast channels all recorded over-the-air via a TivoHD. |
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