Update: Web TV. Potential & Obstacles
Topics: Industry Trends
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I wrote this just 3 months ago regarding Web TV here:

If the decision comes within the next year or two for me to have either the Internet or DirectTV/Dish at home, I’m not so sure I’d be disappointed to just choose an ISP (probably AT&T) and spend the money I would “save” from a DirectTV/Dish subscription and spend it on a sweet-action HD monitor. (My current plan has me paying over $700 over the 18 month contract.)

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Not a two-dog fight (Hello WebTV)
Topics: History and Philosophy
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Assumptions are dangerous. Plain and simple. All the ads on TV today about TV center around Cable & Dish services. I’m not really sure what the Cable advantage would be, to be frank. I haven’t watched cable in 5 years. So, it seems that Satellite TV (Dish or DirectTV) has the upper hand in the media slugfest. But what’s not being advertised may be their greatest enemy. It’s the Web. What isn’t on the Web today? I’m not sure what’s driving down Dish/DirectTV prices more, “th*s *c*n*my” (sorry I don’t let myself say those words together) or the fact that they are afraid of the Web, foreseeing what it could do to their businesses.

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