[LINK] Murchoch's NBN (was Re: Turnbull's NBN)

Craig Sanders cas at taz.net.au
Mon Apr 15 18:12:27 AEST 2013


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Craig Sanders <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Pay TV is dying, it never really worked in this country anyway
> > as Free-To-Air TV was mostly good enough, but it's dying even
> > in America where it was hugely successful - nearly universal
> > subscription almost on the level of "if you could afford it, you had
> > it" .
>
> Dead in the US? I think not...

not dead (still far from dead), but slowly dying.

traditional pay tv over cable is already been replaced by IPTV
offerings.

it'll hang on in the US in areas which don't get decent broadband
services, but i'll be surprised if it's anything but a niche player in
areas with good BB service in 10 years time.

cable tv never really got off the ground in this country, so will die
sooner.

of course, the big cable tv networks in the US are also broadband internet
providers.  they'll gradulally lose their TV subscriptions.

hence the huge bun-fight over net neutrality. cable TV networks are used
to absolute control, and they don't like that they lose that with the
internet - their customers can (gasp!) access content not mediated by
them!!!

> Yes, there is certainly an increase in people moving away from pay
> TV, but with over 100 million US households paying for TV, calling it
> "dying" couldn't be further from the truth.  At most, it's got the
> sniffles...

cable tv technology is obsolete, and subscription rates are already
falling in areas with reliable fast broadband (which provides an
internet-based alternative)

craig

-- 
craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>

BOFH excuse #130:

new management



More information about the Link mailing list