Thinking about heading to DC for the NCTA show next week. Thing is its a lot of money and I got no one to pick up the tab these days. The other thing is that I'm pretty sure that, like the music industry, the cable industry is basically a zombie business model stalking the earth until someone puts a stake through its heart. Internet based XOD (everything on demand) is going to take them down sooner or later and thier ownership of the pipes wont be worth squat.
Well it couldnt happen to as nicer bunch.
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On the contrary, we'd still love to have you come to The Cable Show and see first-hand what we're doing. Before you hate on us, maybe you want to come talk?
Depending on where you are, it might be worth your while to come in for a day. As a blogger, we'll get you free press registration. I think there's some kind of 10% Amtrak discount if you're on East Coast.
Thanks for the kind reply to what is admittedly a highly snarky post. Unfortunately couldn't get out of town long enough to attend.
However in my defense I did work in advanced television for a long time and was made absolutely crazy by how the cable industry does business, so I'm not just randomly hating on you guys. In fact personally I find many of you delightful.
Now I could give a litany of many small complaints about how Cable does business, but the big issue is that as terrestrial TV becomes irrelevant, we have a huge part of the communications infrastructure controlled by private interests. This is a bad idea for a whole host of reasons, the biggest issue of which is that such a situation leads to a population only informed by big corporate media without a fairness doctrine to even attempt at balance.
What is the long range solution ? In my opinion cable and terrestrial broadcast will be supplanted by IP based distribution within 10 years or less. The goal should be high speed fiber to every address in the US, and strictly enforced net neutrality to gaurentee equal access to information to all citizens and equal access to a potential audience of all citizens to any party interested in broadcasting.
None of this is tough to do and there's a lot of money to be made in providing this infrastructure. Anyway thanks again, will try to make the next one.
~SubCommanderManiac
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