Comments on: Court: Cable Can’t Keep All the Good Stuff http://gigaom.com/2010/03/12/court-cable-cant-keep-all-the-good-stuff/ Sat, 25 May 2013 13:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bernie http://gigaom.com/2010/03/12/court-cable-cant-keep-all-the-good-stuff/#comment-482001 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:11:12 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=43732#comment-482001 I may be splitting hairs here, but “IPTV services like Verizon’s FIOS TV” is not entirely accurate. Verizon FiOS TV is not IPTV – Verizon uses an IP overlay for VOD and some widgets, but their core video service is no different than cable TV, at least from a technology point of view.

]]> By: Ian http://gigaom.com/2010/03/12/court-cable-cant-keep-all-the-good-stuff/#comment-482000 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:58:35 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=43732#comment-482000 This is indeed a victory for DirecTV, Dish, Verizon and AT&T. I think there is a big difference over the availability of local pro sports and out of market packages.

All video subscribers in the local market should get all their local team’s games, as long as they are produced. Currently, DirecTV and Dish Network subscribers in the Philadelphia market can’t get their regional sports network, with most 76ers, Flyers and Phillies games because Comcast, who owns the network as well as the 76ers and Flyers, won’t offer it to the satcasters, giving their cable systems a huge competitive advantage.

Similarly in New York, MSG, which was just spun off from Cablevision, won’t offer the HD feeds of their MSG sports networks to Verizon FiOS, even touting that in their commercials, although the SD feeds are on FiOS.

I wonder what this means for local news networks like Cablevision’s News 12 and Time Warner’s NY1, which were designed as a value added incentive to subscribe to cable and not satellite. Will they be forced to offer them to DirecTV and Verizon now?

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