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mpouraryan
4/28/2016 4:28:19 PM
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Re: comcast hunt
From a content perspective, they are somewhat in the drivers' seat especially as they pull off the proposed Dreamworks Animation acquisition. That would be quite a feat in my view.
Michelle
4/29/2016 1:45:56 PM
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Re: Cord Cutter Statistics
@John you're probably right about that. I hadn't thought of the implications of smaller creator content finding the right billing method/service. That could be a major disruption.
Michelle
4/29/2016 1:45:56 PM
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Re: Cord Cutter Statistics
@John you're probably right about that. I hadn't thought of the implications of smaller creator content finding the right billing method/service. That could be a major disruption.
dcawrey
4/29/2016 4:03:10 PM
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Re: Xfinity
What's really missing from OTT services is discovery. Yes, Netflix is able to reccomend certain things after you've watched content. And there is also search. But I don't think this has been developed enough. While on cable systems you're dealing with channels and grids to find something, I don't think either cable or OTT has really innovated the discovery of video content. At least not yet.
faryl
4/29/2016 11:37:42 PM
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Re: Xfinity
I think Roku has started working towards this. They let you search for titles across all their "channels", I believe.
(Netflix's recommendations always just has stuff already in my queue. Plus my viewing history got mucked up when my mom and her boyfriend watched a bunch of cheesy kid movies with his grandkids!)
faryl
4/29/2016 11:39:45 PM
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Re: Cord Cutter Statistics
I bet it's similar with Game of Thrones for HBO as well!
I considered un-cordcutting so I could get BBC America and watch Doctor Who, but it ends up being less money to just buy full seasons on iTunes in the long run.
faryl
4/29/2016 11:42:17 PM
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Re: Xfinity
Exactly!
I think I've mentioned before, I use AT&T Uverse, just because it was the only internet option offered other than the one through my area's cable company.
I'm not even sure that it's any cheaper or better, I just didn't like feeling like I have to give one cable company my money - even if I choose to be a cord-cutter!
JohnBarnes
4/30/2016 12:16:01 AM
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Re: Cord Cutter Statistics
@michelle,
without committing to anything more than idle speculation here: probably any sector of the economy that gets rich enough stops being a viable place for either command/socialist or market/capitalist models. Going back to the 1950s it was pointed out that both command economies and market economies are ways to reduce the immense complexity of economic life to something simple enough for individual players to respond to -- orders or prices. Both are basically one-dimensional and much too simple to reflect reality, but they can be arrived at in short periods of time and people respond to them predictably (even if sometimes undesirably or perversely).
With enough data and enough speed, you don't have to go down to one dimension; many of the innovations we're seeing around telcos -- which, note, deal almost entirely in data and speed -- look like ways to use more information rather than simplifying it away. Might be a generation or two before some new theory grows that allows us to understand how our economy works, at least in the current high-innovation areas.
(This has happened before; see Polanyi's Trade and Market in the Early Empires for a really good argument that premodern civilizations had economies but didn't know they had them; I'm guessing that today's data/communications economy is probably a prototype of something for which we don't yet have a name. The present disruptions just seem like an unusually clear case).
Re: Xfinity
Same here, I use AT & T. Couple of times when i visited their store the sales guy trirted promoting their Direct TV all-in-one package. I didn't really think more about that. No specifc reason. I use Verizon FIOS for my internet and TV. I didn't even do a comparision at the time.
freehe
4/30/2016 7:56:45 PM
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Re: Cord Cutter Statistics
@JohnBarnes, I agree.
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