3 comments on "Cable Customers Leaving For Internet TVs? If Price Is Right"

1. Patrick Koppula from Project Vadver
   

   commented on: January 16, 2008 at 1:29 PM
   ffwd has been prototyping a living room optimized version of www.ffwd.com using the Wii browser, but we’ve been surprised to find our selves already approached with the possibility of skipping the box entirely and going straight to the display. This, in my mind, is real convergence, meaning a collapse to one physical point. And when the physical space gets collapsed, the information space expands. To wit, if the camera is Internet enabled (convergence on the creative side) and the display is Internet enabled (convergence on the audience side), there’s going to be an awful lot of cameras reaching out directly to displays. That’s where ffwd’s mission comes from: information management for the video web.

2. Paul Schneider from PSPR
   

   commented on: January 11, 2008 at 3:16 PM
   As consumers continue to invest in large-screen TVs, the ability to access video offerings that combine “quantity� and “quality� will become more important. As an alternative to the wholesale (and costly) replacement of CPE gear, several operators are in the early stages of deployment of network-based platforms that combine the choice and control of the Web with the high quality and high reliability that subscribers expect from the television. Instead of giving consumers the inconsistency of a “best efforts� approach over the open Internet, these solutions leverage the flexibility and advantages of the managed cable network to ensure optimal delivery of broadband video content right to the TV set.

3. William Hughes from Arnold Aerospace
   

   commented on: January 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM
   I stopped watching Cable TV a little over a year ago. I got fed up with the ever-decreasing quality of Programming (Three factors Contributed to this: First, is the ever-increasing number of Commercials being shown per program. Many of these Ads are for Products I have absolutely NO Interst in Purchasing, or are presented to me in a Manner that's downright Offending to me! I'd get a DVR to Fast-Forward through them, but what is there to record? This brings in the second factor: The Replacing of Quality Drama and Comedy Shows with Cheaply-Produced "Reality", Game and News Shows. (This has been going on before the Writer's Strike!) The third is the use of Pop-Ups, Scrolls and Banners during the Show itself. These things come in at the most oppurtune moments, for example, when an Actor is speaking in a foreign language. The English Subtitles will be blotted out with a Promo for the next show or a News headline.) I finally decided it just wasn't worth paying for anymore. Now I use the money I used to use for paying my Subscription to buy Box Sets of my Favorate Shows, wich are now watched in their unadulterated form, with no "Interruptions" butting in to spoil the program!

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