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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: redmenace on April 27, 2006, 08:11:23 am

Title: Are Broadcasters Getting Smart?
Post by: redmenace on April 27, 2006, 08:11:23 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060425/wr_nm/media_disney_abc_dc

Title: Re: Are Broadcasters Getting Smart?
Post by: Ghostavo on April 27, 2006, 10:44:14 am

They finally got it...

Title: Re: Are Broadcasters Getting Smart?
Post by: karajorma on April 27, 2006, 11:01:20 am

Seems like it. Makes sense for everyone really. The rest of the world can watch American shows (which means bigger revenues for the companies both from advertising and DVD sales). The public don't have to wait for the network to broadcast the new show. They get it at the time and place of their choice and can watch it as many times as they want.

The only losers are the companies actually transmitting the shows. **** 'em. Tie your entire business model to a single technology and you always face the danger of that technology being replaced. They should have branched out into content rather than just provision when they had the chance. It's not like they didn't have years worth of warnings that this was coming.

Title: Re: Are Broadcasters Getting Smart?
Post by: Wild Fragaria on April 27, 2006, 11:12:45 am

They should have done that ages ago.  It's a big world out there.  I don't know why they have been 'restricted' themselves from making more money  :D