| disolitude said: .. I will comment on the last part... The difference between what Microsoft is doing and what everyone esle is doing is this: Apple, Google, Rokku...they all want cable to become IP based. Their offerings are all primarily IP based, with live TV inserted on the side. This does not work for cable companies for several reasons. Online advertising revenue model and TV are drastically different. There tools are totally different, people who do those jobs don't have the same skillsets, technology to deliver videos and stich ads is different... Most cable companies don't have the rights to show the new episode or sports event that airs on TV more than once in the first 7 days. This doesn't work as IPTV...it needs to be linear. This solution would be allowing cable work the same way as usual and slowly transition to IPTV. Linear stream through cable service would still be how their content is delivered through a subscription which you would have to pay for...however that would integrated with IP TV and other types of video streaming seamlessly to a user. They wouldn't see a difference between..."Xbox watch NHL Playoffs" and "Xbox watch epic fail videos"...despite the fact one is live, and coming from NBC sports channel through cable and the other is coming from IP based streaming service like Youtube. |
i guess i dont' get what you mean when you say google wants to be IP based and MS doesn't. maybe i just am not familur with google TV enought. honestly none of this works for me. I use rabbit ears for tv 'cause i honestly don't care about tv all that much. if xbone needs an HDMI in i'm SoL. ..but it will be interesting to see what this morphs into.
..i just wonder how many really cross the tv/gamer divide. if ms makes decent grounds here i think the smartest thing they could do is spin off a much much cheaper tv only box if they want to atract non-gamers with this service. $400 (assumed) just seems waaay too much.
