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Time Warner Cable Cuts iPad Live TV Access 50%
Junior Samples writes "According to the article: 'Time Warner Cable March 16 slashed the number of channels available for live streaming on the Apple iPad — less than 24 hours after launching the TV Everywhere app. The No. 2 cable operator reduced to 15 channels from the original 32 offered up as the first-ever live TV broadcasts available for streaming on a portable media device. The concept allows participating media providers to grant unlimited on-demand access across multiple devices to monthly subscribers at no additional charge.'"
32/15=.5?
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Perhaps they meant for very large values of 15.
It is called "Bait and Switch".
Why won't these 'successful' companies release Android apps as well? Android outsells iOS big-time, but still gets the short end of the stick!
Heck, even my bank, which made 2.1 billion dollars in profit (last quarter), does not have an Android app...yet it keeps advertising iPhone and iPad apps as if iOS is the king in the mobile arena.
I just do not get it especially when the notion of Android fragmentation is a myth and Google seems to confirm this. I am bewildered.
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Methinks that several of the "Channels" first heard about this when it was announced, and SOME of them bitched to TimeWarner that their current agreements didn't cover LIVE streaming of their content.
Why mujst everybody monetize every single little thing? I understand these "networks" have a duty to their stockholders; but they are not getting the big picture. An iPad in the home of a person that is already a TW subscriber is absoutely the same as adding another TV in that same home. No more. No less.
".. offered up as the first-ever live TV broadcasts available for streaming on a portable media device."
Can't we go back to the days when advertising was merely dishonest? What do they achieve by lying about an accomplishment that does not impact the experience of the product?
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Because Android does not implement system-level DRM, that's why. IE, because it is open, media companies don't like it.
This is exactly why Netflix has no Android app, they have said so right on their blog.
I still have 32 channels. I also have Time Wanrer Signature at Home which combines 50mbps Wideband, Digital Phone and Digital Cable, so that could explain it perhaps. I checked just now and they are all there.
>> What do they achieve by lying about an accomplishment that does not impact the experience of the product?
Welcome to Apple era. Check out this "OH SHINY!!" rambling on twitter about this app, and you have the reason why such lies work - it's easy to convince apple userbase (i.e. sheeple (there, I said it) ) if you market it right (no matter how useful the product is, or how truthful the advertisement is)
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"the first-ever live TV broadcasts available for streaming on a portable media device"
Japan has had this technology for quite some time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_culture#Features
According to 9to5Mac, it's a server issue not pissed-off providers (although there may be some of those too)
http://www.9to5mac.com/56532/time-warner-ipad-app-crashed-servers-halve-offering/
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Some that come to mind that have been doing it for a while now: livestation.com and flotv.com, NBA and MLB apps, etc. Welcome to like 2009.
This has been out for a while now. http://www.dishnetwork.com/tveverywhere/default.aspx
As varied as it will be to all the readers here, I live in a semi-urban area and I get at least 15 HD over-the-air channel and at least double that with standard definition and of the big networks too.
The only difference it seems are they pulled the channels (temporarily for server reasons) that aren't typically broadcast OTA.
I can see the small, but free, perk of having these subscriber-limited channels available on the iPad. Do they offer them on the computer as well?
If you pay attention to tech news, and the comments that follow the typical tech news story, you'll eventually come to terms with the fact that for some portion of our society, nothing matters unless it's done by Apple or done on an Apple device. Unsurprisingly, Apple is often seen as a leader with all kinds of "firsts" by this same group, as they simple don't register that something exists unless/until Apple does it.
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the ipad app issue is certainly the same as Slingbox, which the content providers have begrudgingly accepted as ok... for now...
indeed, Slingbox does a lot more than this ipad app does.
This ipad app is actually pretty cool and works well... modulo the slashing of channels available.
Don't know where they cut channels; I've still got 32 HD live channels.
Regards,
MBC1977,
That Dish Network thing is just actually a Slingbox... which yes, isn't new and does support Android and is not restricted to your home network.
I'm betting they'll get a lot of cancellations demanding a full refund. After all, they threw away 90% (appx) of the reason most people would have wanted it.
I'm sure there's something somebody is willing to pay for on the remaining dross, but probably not much. (I know what channels I watch, and what my daughter watches, and those went bye bye in what looked like a major bait and switch scam. Hope they have their papers in order and get the donuts out of the building, there are probably going to be investigators snooping around there soon.)
If you bothered to RTFA you'd see that the reduction in channels is temporary.
If you go to the app store you would see the app is Free. And the reduction is temporary in anycase.
Regards,
MBC1977,
Reducing from 32 to 15 is not a 50% reduction.
Try "Welcome to 2003." Sprint offered live TV service (MobiTV I think) as part of their Vision services back in the day. You could watch something like 15 channels at crazy low resolution on a cheap flip phone.
People have been streaming live tv to handheld devices, PDAs and phones for a long time.
And if you mean a service specifically set up for mobile devices, then the BBC's iplayer service had a Nokia N96 and N97 app three years ago IIRC.
Wake me up when I can use my TWC subscription to watch tv on my mobile device AWAY from my house. That would be cool.
I don't have to be at my house to use my Netflix subscription. I dont' have to be at my house to watch something I rent/buy from the iTunes store. I don't have to be at my house to listen to rhapsody or the radio. Come on TWC...you have a chance to be really cool. If you do, I'll stop bad-mouthing your gawd-awful scientific atlantic DVRs.
That's what I was thinking too.
First off, TWC wasn't the first to stream tv over the internet for customers. I've been using my sling adapter since I got it last fall to stream all my live tv channels to my phone and my net book no matter where I am. TWC has a great idea, the distributors are going to have kittens about it too, even though they are just providing the tv you pay for monthly within in your own house to all your capable devices, but the distributors see it as watching it multiple times, and they think they should get multiple times. Everything was so simple before the cable companies decided to offer online content. Working at DISH network I have been watching this ever growing storm about online content. But really if you think about it, they are offering these kind of products to customer to keep them from leaving the company and cutting the cord, which in the end will cost the distributors more. Imagine if more people were using torrent's, or just not watching TV and going out and enjoying themselves. I am at least out of my house and able to watch any channel that I want, that I PAY for monthly wherever I am, and my recorded DVR's , and some online content as well.