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Insiders tell me Apple is playing a very long game with the TV service -- to the point that they aren't even calculating profitability yet. Well, I am sure some accountant is, but the execs don't even want to be told. They are also very interested in overall profitability of their services...

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-dis-q2-earnings-report-2024-300990de?mod=hp_lead_pos6 The most interesting thing I found from the article: Excluding sports, Disney’s streaming business earned a profit of $47 million for the quarter. Once again, sports are both the savior and death...

Is this the kind of thing you are looking for? https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pluto-tv

Who was your provider? DOCSIS 2.0 only went up to 40Mb down, and DOCSIS 3.0 didn't come out until 2006. TimeWarner Cable didn't offer speeds over 20Mb where I am until the late 2000s.

Didn't mean to imply you did. I was the one criticizing journalism for being as bad as blog due to lack of copy editing.

It isn't like real journalism is that much better. We lost all the copy editors from the newsrooms at the newspaper company I worked for back during the Great Recession. Everyone was supposed to check each others work, but it was not the same as having dedicated people to do it.

It was already overpriced. This is just ridiculous.

Neither are TCL and HiSense anymore, or at least not only low end. Ratings from CNET, rtings.com, Digital Trends, etc. are quite high. Not quite as good as Sony/LG, but surprisingly close. They don't have to beat Sony/LG, but just be close enough and a lower cost to win a ton of customers...

What do you think Sony et. al. thought of TCL and HiSense a few years back? Now that is all anyone is talking about as the "best TVs." I am not saying I am going to buy a Roku, TCL, or HiSense, but things can change fast in a low-margin business like TVs.

https://thestreamable.com/news/roku-wants-to-use-home-screen-to-new-types-of-ads-to-customers-while-also-improving-content-discovery Wood said that he believes that a video-enabled ad unit on the Roku home screen will be “very popular with advertisers, I can tell you it will not be very...

Warning: paywalled (probably). https://www.wsj.com/business/media/nbc-prepares-roughly-2-5-billion-a-year-offer-to-steal-nba-rights-away-from-tnt-e6e14eeb?mod=hp_lead_pos2 NBC Prepares $2.5-Billion-a-Year Bid to Pluck NBA Rights From TNT League is in advanced stages of a new round of...

...she held out hope that a big buyer—maybe a technology giant—would emerge to take the whole company off her hands... This almost never happens. Tech companies are usually too smart to buy messes like existing media companies. This is why Apple never bought Disney despite everyone seemingly...

Not necessarily. I have orange coax going to my house from Spectrum, and it is definitely just regular coax with an orange sheath. My brother, who had fiber service from Spectrum, had a black fiber running to his house

They are still slowly expanding in limited areas: https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/heres-where-verizon-building-new-fios-connections

Finally took the time to do an internet search on the topic and found this: https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-the-tv-business-actually-works-and-why-its-going-to-take-longer-than-you-think-to-disrupt-it-2010-4?op=1 Specifically: For the longest time, the major networks were not part...

It is at least worth calling them up to ask. My parents were getting only 100Mb on their Spectrum connection, despite paying for 300. After they complained, Spectrum sent out a tech with a new box, and things got a whole lot better. Part of that was the upgrade from N wireless to AC for...

Sure. I was simply referring to my earlier prediction that FWA internet isn't going to stay cheap for long. That said, I do like that it is an option as I think competition keeps prices lower. Now that Google Fiber is in my neighborhood, I don't expect AT&T to raise their prices any time...

A slightly different take on the T-Mo results: https://www.lightreading.com/5g/t-mobile-reports-more-growth-but-price-hikes-loom its FWA growth rate is slowing. T-Mobile added 405,000 FWA customers during the first quarter, far less than the 541,000 FWA customers it added during the fourth...

You can't start watching something 20 minutes after it started, skipping commercials as you catch up to the live broadcast, but other than that, nothing I can think of.

Yeah, it seems like there are a lot of happy customers out there, mostly due to the price: https://www.telecompetitor.com/j-d-power-5g-fixed-wireless-has-the-highest-customer-satisfaction/ I assume the prices will go up significantly at some point. There is a lot of uncertainty as to whether...

Please remind me, didn't local stations have to start paying per-sub fees to the networks at some point? I have a vague recollection of that being when the locals starting playing hardball with the cable/satellite companies.

A different survey in 2022 had similar results: https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/customer-satisfaction-survey-2022 "...89% are at least “somewhat satisfied.” Additionally, 89% of customers said their internet speeds meet their needs. Our data suggest that the majority of broadband...

They should have asked whether the respondents were gambling addicts. Those are the only people I know who have time to watch more than 1-2 games per week. Anyway, you'd need to look at total viewership for all televised sports in a given week to see whether the 55% number is anywhere near...

Some interesting data points: https://www.telecompetitor.com/research-finds-strong-streaming-and-broadband-satisfaction/ Given how terrible cable customer satisfaction was/is, even if we were (or are) paying as much for streaming content, it sounds like we are getting a better product at the...

It is always nice to see a fellow pedant active online. Cutting the cord originally meant ditching cable for OTA, so it made sense. Then it meant that plus watching Netflix, which ok, sure. Now it means primarily subscribing to streaming, even if it is really just cable-like services...