Comments on: TelcoTV: The New and the Old http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2007-10/telcotv-the-new-and-the-old/ All your digital media goodness. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:26:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jbelkin http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2007-10/telcotv-the-new-and-the-old/comment-page-1/#comment-74695 jbelkin Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:43:17 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2007-10/telcotv-the-new-and-the-old/#comment-74695 A La Carte would've worked 20 years but it's too late now - they all have that 65 or 80 million homes passed goal. When networks talk about being on a low priced tier (like NFLN) but then want $1 a sub and of course, rake in the ad dollars at the other end ... they are just being disningenious. Not that I'm defending cable or sat companies because we are stagnating at the actual channels we get that's not a retain tradeoffer or some $50 billion conglomerate able to buy its way in ... For those who think ala carte will solve anything (think restaurants) ... what will happen? You can get the Disney Channel for $10 a month and ESPN for $25 a month or take both for $29.99 a month and you get 10 other Disney corp channels inlucding ABC HD, etc, etc ... (and of course, you get QVC for free!) WE will actually pay MORE - so unless you cahnge the background of how channels are launched, al la carte is just more billions to the networks. Right now, in the US - the problem is DISTRIBUTION control not anything else. What we need is REAL IPTV where people can order EXACTLY the channels they want from the world over. Let's really treat Tv like TP. You can buy it in hundreds of stores around your neighborhood (TP for now), why not TV ... packaged nicely on a device like AppleTV or some ratty DI box ... like Costco to Al's Fast & Quick ... we get to choose ... A La Carte would’ve worked 20 years but it’s too late now – they all have that 65 or 80 million homes passed goal. When networks talk about being on a low priced tier (like NFLN) but then want $1 a sub and of course, rake in the ad dollars at the other end … they are just being disningenious.

Not that I’m defending cable or sat companies because we are stagnating at the actual channels we get that’s not a retain tradeoffer or some $50 billion conglomerate able to buy its way in …

For those who think ala carte will solve anything (think restaurants) … what will happen? You can get the Disney Channel for $10 a month and ESPN for $25 a month or take both for $29.99 a month and you get 10 other Disney corp channels inlucding ABC HD, etc, etc … (and of course, you get QVC for free!)

WE will actually pay MORE – so unless you cahnge the background of how channels are launched, al la carte is just more billions to the networks.

Right now, in the US – the problem is DISTRIBUTION control not anything else.

What we need is REAL IPTV where people can order EXACTLY the channels they want from the world over.

Let’s really treat Tv like TP. You can buy it in hundreds of stores around your neighborhood (TP for now), why not TV … packaged nicely on a device like AppleTV or some ratty DI box … like Costco to Al’s Fast & Quick … we get to choose …

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