Jeff Rife
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 Posted:
Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:52 am Post subject:
Re: Cable VOD News |
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K. B. (hotmail.com@lis2lis2) wrote in alt.video.digital-tv:
| Quote: | http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/04/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/index.htm
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Basic summary: VOD isn't making the cable companies any money, since the
majority of the downloads are merely timeshifting of content the
subscriber already pays for (like HBO).
So, as I have said many times before, instead of spending *billions* of
dollars to upgrade their networks and then waste all that bandwidth on
VOD, the cable companies could be raking in the dough by providing
DVRs to customers for a small extra fee ($1-2/month) and using all the
bandwidth they now have for more "real channels" and better picture
quality.
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