[mythtv-users] From cable to fiber (TDS / Mediaroom)

[Joseph Fry]

>  > When they first started talking about IPTV, I always envisioned that the
> > whole purpose was to make television more accessible, to make more people
> > watch in more places.
>
> You silly, silly boy.  :-)
>

Indeed... but you must admit that you had similar hopes for "IPTV".  I just
wish I had known that "IP" stood for "Intellectual Property" and not
"Internet Protocol"


>
> The purpose of DRM of any sort on any media is now, and has forever
> been, to make it possible for the rightsholder to charge you a separate
> feed for every single viewing you make of it, to the extent that you will
> tolerate this without burning their office buildings to the ground.
>

Ahh... but your talking about the "rightsholder".  In the case of
cable/iptv/satellite/etc... there are two.  1. is the content provider, 2.
is the carrier.  The content provider doesn't make anything more per
television in a household... they make their  money by having more viewers.
 The carrier's constant efforts to limit the viewer's flexibility  (often
disguised as a way to 'protect' the content provider's IP) have to be
having an impact on the number of viewers.

Essentially, I can't believe that the networks aren't screaming about the
fact that, as televisions have become dirt cheap... many households have
fewer of them.  A lot of networks rely on casual viewers, those who have
the TV on all day and watch it passively while doing other things...
otherwise a lot of channels would simply disappear.  Fewer televisions
means less passive viewing and more "active" viewers who schedule their
watching around favorite shows (or DVR'd content) because their connected
TV's are only in rooms designed for active viewing.
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