[TriLUG] OT- The death of TV?

Andrew C. Oliver acoliver at buni.org
Tue Jul 31 23:09:20 EDT 2007


I don't think I'll start shorting TWC stock just yet.

Greg Brown wrote:
> Yeah, I suppose death of cable TV would equate to death of decent Internet
> over cable as well.  Regardless of how fast someone might get fiber to the
> house in the RDU area I won't be in the first wave.  So I hope cable lives
> on.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On 7/31/07, Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
>> Kevin J. wrote:
>>> Given the lack of any compelling content on cable TV, and the VHS(or
>> higher)-quality
>>> of streaming video, I'd give cable TV programming another 5 years at
>> most (IPTV anyone?).
>>
>> You'll give cable TV 5 years to do what, exactly?  I hope you're not
>> silly enough to be predicting it's demise.
>>
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