@michelletripp

Today’s article about this very topic. Mark is absolutely right. In the end, it’s about the money for these companies. That’s why TW is trialing an additional cost to port to PC. They’ll see how popular it is (how many people want to pay on top of the premium fees?) or keep raising their premium rates anyway to eventually recover their costs.

People like easy, one-stop-shopping. If TW can deliver premium services online, then people will go there to watch their basic networks as well. And the service that produces the easiest to use, navigate, search, etc and attractive UI with the most variety of content quickly after TV airing will win. The race is on. Any takers?

All this while I have been thinking;

» What is Freedom?
» Are We Free?
» Do we See Reality?
» Are We Happy with the not so real stories scripted by our Media, or We really now feel the responsibility to Express, See and Show reality?

Our Press, Media, Politicians, Business tricoons have a simple belief that WE will always Believe what they want us to Believe.

But I feel, it’s a high time now to expose and express.

Let’s be Citizen Journalists:- Right to Express is not only the phrase but the reality.

Mahatma Gandhi did a Dandi March for Salt Tax because Salt was basic necessity of each and every Citizen, Similarly Right to Speak is basic necessity of every one of us and it has to be heard.

http://www.A2zonline.in is our small contribution to make our Basic Rights Of Democracy to come to our fellow citizens absolutely Free as We are Free.

LOGON TO http://www.a2zonline.in now and Express, Write, Share, Group, Upload what ever you fill could contribute to our Freedom and can open our restricted eyes and minds.

AND YA ITS ABSOLUTELY FREE………………

If you are a cable network or a local tv station, would you pay more or less to license episodes of shows that are available 24x7x365 online ?
Im guessing less.

So how much per eps less will they get in revenue ? Does internet advertising compensate for that ?

Time Warner prob thinks not since they most likely are getting little if any of the online rev from those full eps

In addition, since Comcast, TW, Charter control their pipes, they are trying to figure out how to manipulate what goes down those pipes to their advantage. It gets tricky because those pipes are very expensive and they get leased and subleased, but as Om Malik points out, do they have the right to control what and when data gets sent along just because they own them?

This is all new territory for big media. The rate of change is now exponential (since, say 5 years ago before YouTube) compared to the rate of change since, say when HBO launched in 1972, then a game-changing proposition for the movie studios.

Fasten your seat-belts, it’s gonna be a wild ride!