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Re: OTT Will Exceed Pay-TV
@srufolo1:
That is so right. I recall same thing happened to my local BB, as they just disappeared with not displaying any signs of closing. Absolutely that vision and leadership was missing.
Michelle
2/28/2017 11:56:41 PM
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Re: OTT Will Exceed Pay-TV
@John you always provide great perspective on these innovations. I'm nearly certain you're right about this one too
JohnBarnes
2/28/2017 8:45:48 PM
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Re: OTT Will Exceed Pay-TV
Ms, Akkineni,
There's a historic pattern of some technology never being deployed very much, or withering early, because at a later stage of development something came along. Practically all the stillwater canals (i.e. the ones that are basically linear ponds) for freight and passengers in the US were built in either the original 13 states or in states that bordered them. By the time the frontier was further out, railroads had come in, and that was what was built, the canal stage being skipped. Alaska never got much of a railroad network, in part because of airplanes. I would guess if we ever settle another planet, we might not build roads or airfields at all, since if we have the tech to move large numbers of people there, we'll probably have orbital flight so cheap that we'll just go through space to get anywhere.
Similarly I very much doubt that anyone's ever going to lay as much copper cable as the US and Europe did in the mid 20th century; microwave towers, wireless, and satellite are what they'll build first (and probably only) in the not-yet-"wired" parts of the Third World.
srufolo1
2/28/2017 7:54:37 PM
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Re: OTT Will Exceed Pay-TV
@ms.akkineni It was almost like it happened overnight. BlockBluster was there one day and gone the next. If they thought that the DVD would be something that would never die, then they did not have a visionary leading the company. It was really kind of sad. So many of their storefronts were left vacant.
Re: OTT Will Exceed Pay-TV
@JB:
You are very much right about not all countries are there yet with pay TV trend.
Re: OTT Will Exceed Pay-TV
You are right. It was just lack of vision and strategy that knocked Block Buster off the market. I keep thinking about that as well whenever i pass by the area where there use to be their location near my place.
They clearly had a potential and not just used it at the right time and the right way.
dlr5288
2/28/2017 4:02:54 PM
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Re: TIMVision sounds like the next evolution of OTT
I agree! And I love the mix between those two! I'm a big Netflix user so that would be awesome for me.
Michelle
2/27/2017 2:27:21 PM
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Re: TIM
@Adi Tthe release date was so very important (as were holds on new rentals). I remember when the big selling point for Netflix was the new release schedule -- new and always in stock. Blockbuster tried to compete with that but ultimately failed.
JohnBarnes
2/26/2017 10:33:33 PM
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Re: OTT Will Exceed Pay-TV
Dcawrey,
Absolutely right about OTT v. payTV. Chances are that in many countries that have not yet developed much of a payTV market (like Italy, and there are other cases more extreme -- the Middle East/North Africa market is only at about 11%), they never will, because OTT and the a la carte streaming that will follow almost immediately will simply abort the market.
dcawrey
2/26/2017 2:06:03 PM
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Re: OTT Will Exceed Pay-TV
I agree everything now is a month-to-month proposition. That's a good way to look at things these days.
I also agree pay TV is running out of time. Everything is going to move over to OTT. It's inevitable at this point.
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