What is the definition of a reasonable expectation?
Thank you for the forecast. I guess my real question is, "What is the definition of a reasonable expectation of how management and ownership will treat consumers who have signed two year service contracts?" Given that there is new ownership of the sat service, and given that they (the old owners) have had the semi-embarassement of being criticized by Congress for questionable advertising, performance, product and service recently... here is what I think. If an informed observer was aware of the capactiy of the satellite fleet, the consumer demand in relative terms for addtional SD and HD channels, the margin for leasing new transponders to "other" interests, and the availability of additional SD and HD channels, we could make a reasonable guess on how long (the duration) that superior performance will be available to the consumer...given that none of the older sat's in the fleet konk out (become disfuncitonal).
In other words, Maybe it will take 3 or 4 years to fill up D-10 and D-11 with junk. In other words, maybe they have already saturated their capacity with junk SD channels and there will not be any additional economic incentive to add additional SD junk channels. Maybe they will concentrate on having desirable, widely popular HD channels that a great number of consumer viewers will prefer.
Tha joker in this deck of cards is greed! What is the technical feasibility of leasing transponders on D-10 and D-11 to a third party non-TV provider? ( I don't know the answer to that ). That is the sort of stupidity that I would expect to be under discussion as a contingency plan by ownership, in case the "demand" for HD does not materialize. Think about it...it has been about nine years since ABC HD premired 101 Dalmations on the initiial OTA transmission of HD. What is the market penatration of HD in USA? Last I heard it was something like 45 million households out of about 135 million households in a nation of 300 million in the US.
On the other hand, their other sat competitor does not appear to be activitly shaping the HD market. Their cable competitior are busly working on switched video. Have heard that the two larger switched video trials by *cast will conclude in February 2008. It would be a presumption to assume that they will move forward rapidly with a roll-out to select markets. In other words, the conculsion of the two tests of switched video may (or may not ) be that the competitor's technology is technically immature or economically infeasible.
So lets applaude the sat service (and prior ownership) for ponying up with mature technological capacity in the present. Please don't squander the opportunity, Liberty!
Thank you for your time.
Scott, I hope this exciting great opportunity that you anticipate sharing on July 23 or 24, 2007 addresses quality concerns in addition to just quantity and price.
Thank you for the forecast. I guess my real question is, "What is the definition of a reasonable expectation of how management and ownership will treat consumers who have signed two year service contracts?" Given that there is new ownership of the sat service, and given that they (the old owners) have had the semi-embarassement of being criticized by Congress for questionable advertising, performance, product and service recently... here is what I think. If an informed observer was aware of the capactiy of the satellite fleet, the consumer demand in relative terms for addtional SD and HD channels, the margin for leasing new transponders to "other" interests, and the availability of additional SD and HD channels, we could make a reasonable guess on how long (the duration) that superior performance will be available to the consumer...given that none of the older sat's in the fleet konk out (become disfuncitonal).
In other words, Maybe it will take 3 or 4 years to fill up D-10 and D-11 with junk. In other words, maybe they have already saturated their capacity with junk SD channels and there will not be any additional economic incentive to add additional SD junk channels. Maybe they will concentrate on having desirable, widely popular HD channels that a great number of consumer viewers will prefer.
Tha joker in this deck of cards is greed! What is the technical feasibility of leasing transponders on D-10 and D-11 to a third party non-TV provider? ( I don't know the answer to that ). That is the sort of stupidity that I would expect to be under discussion as a contingency plan by ownership, in case the "demand" for HD does not materialize. Think about it...it has been about nine years since ABC HD premired 101 Dalmations on the initiial OTA transmission of HD. What is the market penatration of HD in USA? Last I heard it was something like 45 million households out of about 135 million households in a nation of 300 million in the US.
On the other hand, their other sat competitor does not appear to be activitly shaping the HD market. Their cable competitior are busly working on switched video. Have heard that the two larger switched video trials by *cast will conclude in February 2008. It would be a presumption to assume that they will move forward rapidly with a roll-out to select markets. In other words, the conculsion of the two tests of switched video may (or may not ) be that the competitor's technology is technically immature or economically infeasible.
So lets applaude the sat service (and prior ownership) for ponying up with mature technological capacity in the present. Please don't squander the opportunity, Liberty!
Thank you for your time.
Scott, I hope this exciting great opportunity that you anticipate sharing on July 23 or 24, 2007 addresses quality concerns in addition to just quantity and price.
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