Comments on: What Do You Want to Know from Comcast, Xbox, Roku and Redbox?

By: richreader

richreader — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:55:05 +0000

take your laptop into a central business district or university area for good broadband download rates. Watch my #ntvl09 livestream on Thursday: http://www.justin.tv/richreader

By: Rich Reader

Rich Reader — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:22:31 +0000

How will the IPTV players like Xbox and Roku deliver higher-tier pay (USA, TBS, Travel Channel) and premium (HBO, SHO, etc.) in HD such that consumers just won’t want to resist further? Will they force cable and satellite to unbundle at favorable rates? Will they bring highly desirable content not available in the CATV/Sat tiers? With the amount of innovation that has taken place, and the awesome piles of duckettes spewed on the picks & shovels, more attractive packages have got to be waved in consumers’ faces.

In a separate vein, what’s happening with Move Networks and the Intel-Yahoo Widget Channel Framework. I really expected them to show off big time after the presentations that they made at CineQuest earlier this year: http://richreader.blogspot.com/2009/04/broadcast-cable-and-online-content.html and http://richreader.blogspot.com/2009/03/bridging-content-delivery-gap-between.html

Looking forward to seeing how you’ll weave this line of questioning into the grill pattern on Thursday.

Rich

By: Craig Rubens

Craig Rubens — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:08:40 +0000

Sigh, that's what I thought. Thanks for pestering them about it anyway!

By: Chris Albrecht

Chris Albrecht — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:04:02 +0000

Hey Matt, I was thinking of it a different way, but yeah, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings basically said his company was a short-term threat to cable's vid biz.

By: Chris Albrecht

Chris Albrecht — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:03:09 +0000

That is a question I have asked them before, and they were stickin' with the credits. Agreed that it's dumb. Will ask again. .

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:48:31 +0000

"NewTeeVee Live is less than a week away!" Who cares? Broadband doesn't exist in Seattle, so I can't watch it anyways.

By: Paul Zagaeski

Paul Zagaeski — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:41:03 +0000

Hey Chris, None of these companies have an online ad hoc payment capability as part of the basic system platform (they all want users to be paying subscribers... well, except Redbox).

Are any of these guys thinking that micropayment or spontaneous payment or some other terminology for ad hoc is a way to draw in users who might like to sample their content?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:59:10 +0000

Also you should ask Redbox what are thier plans when the Disk format dies out in the next decade in favour of streaming video over IP based networks .

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:56:01 +0000

I want to know if Comcast is interested in buying Netflix now Netflix is stealing market share from cable TV where viewers can watch many of the shows that cable has on demand on a game console or set top box over the Internet .With Apple getting into the same market with its streaming service next year this seems to be a space that is heating right up.

By: Craig Rubens

Craig Rubens — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:49:57 +0000

Chris, can you ask Whitten when the XBox Marketplace will stop using those childish "Microsoft Points"? This extra step of having to add points before you buy something is ridiculous. I never really know what any of the content costs because all the prices are in this one-stepped removed micro-economy. In the age of iTunes can't they just use dollars and cents and charge my credit card each time I download something?

Thanks and good luck!

Craig.