Comcast is encouraging customers to use a roku or firetv...because they are not charging the stb fee for those devices
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AT&T exploring Deal to sell off DIRECTV.
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Word I am getting is that AT&T is in deep talks with Amazon about the DIRECTV Assets.
Would be interesting if true.
Would be interesting if true.
Comcast's Xfinity Stream app is available for Roku and certain Samsung and LG smart TVs, but it's not available for Fire TV (or Apple TV or Android TV or Xbox or PlayStation).
At this point, I doubt that they'll ever charge anything to use their app on TV-connected devices. I think there would be a lot of consumer backlash and it might encourage some renewed FCC oversight into the whole matter, especially now that the CableCARD mandate is dead. I'm not aware of any MVPD or vMVPD that charges their customers to use their app on customers' own retail devices. (Instead, they just limit the number of simultaneous streams that can be accessed across all devices.) Now that that's pretty much ingrained in consumer culture, I don't see Comcast being able to change it.
Instead, Comcast's strategy seems to be to make sure the user experience on their app is significantly inferior to using their own X1 boxes (which cost $5/mo to rent), while also restricting the range of retail devices for which their Stream app is available. Most households probably only have 1 or 2 TVs that they watch much cable TV on and, IMO, you'd have to really be motivated to save that extra $5-10/mo in order to use their Stream app instead of just renting the X1 boxes and voice remotes that are custom-made for use with their service. For the TV in the guest room, sure, download the app on an old Roku you've got.
Comcast's game seems to be to say to the FCC and consumer groups, "Hey, look, we're giving customers a choice to save money and use their own streaming hardware instead of our boxes!" But in reality, Comcast sees those retail streaming platforms as competitors to their own X1. So they don't want to do *too* much to support them.
Dont think amazon wants a satellite network but a streaming network would be a perfect fit
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I used to think the same thing but then Amazon had a perfectly usable vMVPD (i.e. streaming cable TV service) they could've bought on the cheap when PS Vue was in its death spiral awhile back. They could've grown the user base and merged the service into the Prime Video app ("Prime Video Live Channels") as an add-on.
I question whether Amazon is interested in getting into the vMVPD game. As for DTV satellite TV, I can't imagine what would interest them there, other than maybe the relationship with NFL Sunday Ticket.
Actually from what I understand they are not looking to sell off the streaming side of things. But that does not mean Amazon cant start their own.
Yeah, can't see them selling off AT&T TV along with DTV. As long as AT&T has a significant home broadband business, they'll need a cable TV service to sell those homes. And they do, with AT&T Fiber available at about 14 million homes now, and subscribed to by about 4 million. Their rickety old Uverse TV system is built on an outdated software and hardware platform, so it was time to phase it out and replace it with something new. So even if AT&T never succeeds in transitioning many DTV satellite subs over to AT&T TV (as had originally been the plan), AT&T TV (or something similar) will still stick around to serve as a modern, cloud-based OTT replacement for Uverse TV.
The FCC ruling lets them quit supporting cable cards for consumers without affecting the cable cards they use in their own equipment.
Prove it, show us which market that is.
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I’m sure Tivo would come out with a software update or find a way to record IPTV.
If Tivo can stream Netflix, I’m sure I can support multicast IP
Given they are selling IPTV solutions to cablecos, I don't see why Tivo couldn't make it work with existing hardware.
I'm sure Tivo can make it work with existing hardware, and will for the MSO branded boxes. But that doesn't mean that cable companies would be willing to cooperate with Tivo to come up with a solution for consumer owned boxes. That's just added work for them with less revenue, when they are already de-emphasizing TV since they make more of their money from internet these days.
So I don't hold out any hope that my Bolt will someday be capable of working with IPTV delivered Mediacom (and if it did it would probably require updating to TE4 which is a non-starter for me) Whenever they drop cablecard, that will be the end of my Tivo, and the end of my subscription to Mediacom. I keep one eye on Tivo forums where people are already investigating other options. One good possibility looks like Channels DVR, which is able to record the live stream from the "TV Anywhere" provider logins for most cable channels.
So I don't hold out any hope that my Bolt will someday be capable of working with IPTV delivered Mediacom (and if it did it would probably require updating to TE4 which is a non-starter for me) Whenever they drop cablecard, that will be the end of my Tivo, and the end of my subscription to Mediacom. I keep one eye on Tivo forums where people are already investigating other options. One good possibility looks like Channels DVR, which is able to record the live stream from the "TV Anywhere" provider logins for most cable channels.
Maybe so, maybe not. It is all about the contracts. I can see no reason a contract couldn’t be made to allow recording of a stream. Not easy to accomplish but certainly not impossible.
I remember DTV back when they were good in the mid 90's early 2000's. It would be nice if someone would buy the company and return it back to its former glory. Things seemed to start really going down hill when they started offering local channels. That was my experience anyway. That's around the time I dropped them anyway.
