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| Topic | Nerds hate on cable. But streaming has basically gone the same way |
| green butter 07/20/18 3:32:49 PM #20: | Questionmarktarius posted... green butter posted...Just had a meeting about this today at work actually. without revealing anything identifying or proprietary, the situation is basically that the networks know they're on their way out and just keep jacking up the prices for their channels to get whatever money they can while it's still there. this ultimately hurts the smaller cable providers (aka MSOs, and there actually are a bunch) because they have to struggle to pay fees someone like Comcast can easily do, and this is on top of other fees (i.e. the city takes a cut of cable sales, known as franchising fees). the biggest culprit of this is pro sports, lots of people want this and the networks charge a ton for it, because without the NFL a lot of ppl will not have any motivation for cable TV. the future for media is all in streaming, wifi,etc. margins are huge and cable companies are investing a ton into them, even in ways you cant see (i.e. cable companies buying their own netflix servers so the users have faster connections). right now it's just a transitional phase. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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