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IPTV Revolution Put on Hold

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-guess-it-won't-be-televised dept.

prostoalex writes "Business Week says the IPTV revolution might be postponed. As telecoms are launching the new service, they are facing the problem of lack of content: "But improvements like these can happen only if content providers - media companies and movie studios like Disney - play along. So far, it seems, they're not. Disney didn't return calls from BusinessWeek Online seeking comment, and it hasn't signed with any outside distributor to provide its movies for video-on-demand. Most studios have agreed to only limited video-on-demand distribution, fearing it could cut into revenues from rentals and DVD sales - now generating bigger income streams than the box office itself." The solution just might be buying out content companies, like Mark Cuban does. In the retrospect the Comcast bid for Disney and AOL buying Time Warner start making sense."

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  1. Join the jihad today! by klipsch_gmx · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Wo0t.. Fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    that sup4oRt

  3. Jewiish Propaganda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    American TV is really only an extension of the propaganda wing of the robber state of Israel. If IPTV follows the same pattern, all we'll get for programming is how wonderful jews are and how terrible everybody else is.

    Hitler was right.