Will Dish follow Intels lead and offer smaller programming bundles?

[Lue]

See link below. Anybody willing to switch if you can save some money with Intel?

http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.ph...-viacom-nbcu-time-warner-for-ott-service.html

http://www.eweek.com/pc-hardware/intel-tv-engineer-leaves-company/

 

[CK SatGuy]

With Dish raising prices and fees, one would hope some smaller packs would be offered, but I doubt it.

 

[Lue]

Cards or going to have to be shown

This article states that incumbent companies will have to follow Intel's lead.

http://adage.com/article/media/intel-cooks-future-tv-a-potential-mess-cable/240723/

 

[Tampa8]

Totally different animals. I wouldn't even call it a lead unless an actual non internet provider does it. And some of the stumbling blocks long discussed are mentioned in the articles.

 

[Hall]

Will Dish follow Intels lead and offer smaller programming bundles?

Not for 2-3 years or longer, assuming Intel's little venture lasts that long, or more accurately, is even remotely popular.

 

[Lue]

Dish'es reply to smaller bundles

Maybe Dish can see what is coming and is going to try and make up the difference in hardware fees?

 

[Lue]

Just today amazon is entering the market also, Apple not far behind and Microsoft wants to take the new xbox 720 into the TV market, look out the Revolution is going on right now. see link below

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/amazons-settop-box-poses-new-threat-to-intel-apple-cm240252

 

[navychop]

The networks control this, not Dish or DirecTV.

 

[Lue]

Networks were in control yesterday and today, not so sure about tomorrow. Looks like things are beginning to crack open. You don't give any of these new products/services a chance at disrupting the whole market?

 

[navychop]

I certainly hope you're right.

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[Stargazer]

Seems like these companies want to do the same thing that MagicJack did with telephone.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Seems like these companies want to do the same thing that MagicJack did with telephone.

That would be super cool if they did! I only pay around $20.00 a year for magic jack . Can't imagine only paying $20.00 a year for cable tv.

 

[Stargazer]

Perhaps what needs to happen is what Hulu is doing. New stations / content to compete with what is out there today on a lower cost scale. If they would offer a really cheap or free package and have an option to have it with commercials for less than the paid version then they would do like the networks used to do, generate more income for each person viewing the commercials. The internet is a really cheap way to put yourself out there to the masses.

 

[Bobby]

Until the masses go totally internet and then internet costs triple......

 

[Stargazer]

Then the likes of google will try to expand along with other competitors that will offer internet as their main service instead of television.