{"id":149,"date":"2009-02-06T12:11:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-02-06T12:11:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:11:29","slug":"more-turning-to-web-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/more-turning-to-web-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;More turning to Web TV&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a big chuckle out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/02\/06\/internet.tv\/index.html\">this article from CNN<\/a>, about consumers canceling cable service and turning to the Internet for TV.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst\/pundit comments\u00a0reminded\u00a0me of the Internet naysayers from the mid 90s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The brutal economy may motivate some consumers, like the Wynsmas, to switch to Web-based TV, but it won&#8217;t necessarily hurt the cable or satellite TV business, which has historically been recession-proof.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, but this is the first time in history that consumers have a viable alternative to satellite and cable TV. \u00a0And, the alternative happens to be entirely on-demand.<\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The cable companies have invested billions of dollars to expand the footprint and reach of their services, and it will require a similar investment by the [Internet Protocol Television] players to catch up,&#8221; said Lewis, the technology consultant.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not really: \u00a0cable companies spent billions building infrastructure, both for broadband\/IP and for\u00a0proprietary\u00a0cable distribution. \u00a0Since IP is open access (in theory), the IP TV player don&#8217;t need to duplicate that investment &#8212; they can just ride on the back of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a big chuckle out of this article from CNN, about consumers canceling cable service and turning to the Internet for TV. The analyst\/pundit comments\u00a0reminded\u00a0me of the Internet naysayers from the mid 90s: The brutal economy may motivate some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/more-turning-to-web-tv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}