Why Cable Operators Might Be Secretly Rooting for Over-the-Top TV Services

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Pay-tv operators have deep suspicions, Intel, SONY, valley song, apple or any other programming Internet TV service challenges to establish cable, satellite and telecoms providers to ensure that critical mass.
But there are some reasons incubments may actually benefit from this development.
On the one hand, broadband service providers will have a new way, upsells customers faster (read: expensive) service layer. High-speed Internet access is a significant higher-margin business is not a video.
And here's another wrinkles: used, at the top of the competitors, linear TV cable companies to negotiate better programming terms and fees - or just go into business with OTT guy, and not in a position, according to the charter communications, chief executive of Tom's leach (pictured above).
If programmers cut processed top players such as Intel or SONY, "we can put them and had a top supplier relations, and put these signals on TV, for the customer's leach said:" this week bank of America merrill lynch media, communication and entertainment.
"In some ways, I think (overhead), because I think it's going to change our relationship between leverage and content providers, leach says:" Cablevision and time warner cable, former EXEC.
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However, lats leach is still in doubt the oledata.mso "never left the ground. TV programmer "can't get any incremental customer" just shuffle cable connected to the Internet service subscribers, he said. "If it is a replacement service, it is not incremental."

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Intel has been committed to through the Intel media of TV broadband service, and it's goal is to launch, later this year, Intel has already in trouble choosing late dispatch handling and media companies. At the same time, SONY, Internet distribution is said to have reached a preliminary agreement, viacom, its network including MTV, comedy central and Nickelodeon.
DirecTV's chief financial officer, Patrick Doyle said: "while talking about virtual the oledata.mso for many years, we have yet to see anyone to launch one of them, also said bank of America/merrill lynch conference.
Doyle equally sceptical about top video services, as an alternative to the current pay TV service. "This is a very difficult economic man" to form a pay TV service, it can replace the cable or satellite television, he said.
Lats leach of photograph echo, Doyle says, content owners desire, to keep the current ecosystems intact. "This is a very hard time to think about someone who doesn't have investment in his pipe, and then provides the content of the way," he said. "We see? We might as well. But I don't think it's going to be a threat linear business."
It may be an existing pay-tv provider Dish or Verizon communications network, eventually bring virtual the oledata.mso ideas into practice, like. Rumors that the two companies have established the traditional pay TV business, has explored the concept.
Dish, in fact, the chairman Charlie urban root told Wall Street analysts earlier this year, satcaster already prepared, released a television service. "(A) seconds OTT, we think this is something that we can participate in... if it became A reality," he said, in May set in the first quarter earnings call.
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DirecTV company, at the same time, Hulu among the final bidders, the owner of the Internet TV companies put it off this summer.
This may make DirecTV company itself become a virtual all kinds of the oledata.mso - provides a platform, provide online customers with the first round of the TV. Doyle says, most notably Hulu's visit on the second day TV, with its more than 4 million subscribers.
Stock options VOD, DirecTV company will continue to evaluate space, he said. As for the bottle gourd, "we are glad to see that if no accident, it returned to the content owner," Doyle said. Again, "because, they should have a goal not marginalised linear business, make the product is too attractive."