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Originally Posted by Hooch Tan
The market must be limited though, since I imagine this would only be preferred by those with limited or no Internet access since streaming solutions provide a comparable service.
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Wow, why would you assume that? Doogald gives good reasons, but I can think of one that no one EVER talks about when talking about the demise of TV:
SPORTS and Live Events
It's all well and good to maybe catch something on Hulu or TV.com a day or two after it airs, but I watch most of my stuff at different times on air day. For Sports, well, you're pretty much screwed no matter what.
For example, I'm a Mets fan. The Mets are available on MLB.tv HD (nice) however, not to me since I live in NYC (FAIL!).
Another thing you aren't considering is that the cable companies will have much lower costs as they won't have to keep replacing dead DVRs (I'm on DVR #2 at the moment) AND if my DVR goes to the great DVR in the sky, my shows don't go with it. I'm very cool with that.
I'm a happy Cablevision customer and this can't get to me fast enough. As far as it being locked to Cablevision, well, it's up to them because they invented it. If another company wants to take a stab at it, go right ahead, but nothing says that Cablevision has to share what they've created.