Apple to kill Cable TV ?

[Chip Fetrow]

MAYBE Apple can, but can the Internet providers?

Today, broadcast and cable are a "one to many" form of literally  
BROADCASTING.  Yes, there is video on demand, and Netflix, but it is  
very small compared to the broadcast offerings.

Once everyone is getting everything by subscription, it is a server to  
user service, and frankly, the Internet just isn't ready for that!

Also, if the public every wises up and figures out they have spent a  
lot of money on TVs capable of 1080i or even the non-broadcast  
standard of 1080p, and figure out that most of the providers,  
especially cable providers are actually giving them 240 p, the poop is  
going to hit the air blowing device.

I cannot believe the quality Comcrap sends to my home.  It is just  
dreadful, and it is dreadful on services such as News Channel 8, which  
has always been a 480i service, but they down convert it anyway.   
Watch the lips on the news readers!

Until we are going to really improve the bandwidth of the cable  
systems, and that includes FiOS, we cannot expect everyone to be able  
to watch video on demand at any kind of reasonable quality over the  
Internet.  Sure, YouTube quality will be there, but who wants to watch  
that?  It is worse than Comcrap.

--chip

On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:00 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:39:10 -0400
> From: Dan Romanchik KB6NU <cwgeek at kb6nu.com>
>
> If anyone can do it, Apple can.  Like the article points out,  
> though, prices for TV shows are going to have to come way down. I  
> might pay $30-35 per season for a new series, but I can't see paying  
> $20 for a season's worth of Gilligan's Island or Mr. Ed.
>
> They need to improve Apple TV, too. Every review I've read says that  
> Roku is better, and that's what I'm using right now, a Roku box  
> running Netflix.   (Yes, there are some other "channels" available,  
> but most of the content on the other channels are pretty lame.)
>
> 73!
>
> Dan KB6NU