{"id":2889,"date":"2007-05-14T08:53:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T08:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2007-05-14T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T08:53:49","slug":"clues_about_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"Clues About the Future of TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/clues-about-future-of-tv.html\">David Isenberg<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/shared\/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199400174\">A recent article chronicles<\/a> the telcos&#8217; slow start in cable TV. I don&#8217;t think the telcos stand a chance of succeeding in cable TV. Instead, if they&#8217;re to succeed at all, they&#8217;ll probably buy or form alliances with existing cablecos. (Dale Hatfield put it most memorably when he said, &#8220;Duopoly is an optimistic assumption.&#8221;) But they&#8217;d better start swimming, because the times are a changing; I think four things will make the video entertainment space different in the near future: new devices, RSS, faster than real-time downloads and the end of the Kontent Kartel. Here&#8217;s an article I wrote last year for VON Magazine about that:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Informative, particularly in light of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;search=at%26t\">AT&#038;T&#8217;s extensive lobbying<\/a> to supply &#8220;tv&#8221; across their old Wisconsin copper network&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Isenberg: A recent article chronicles the telcos&#8217; slow start in cable TV. I don&#8217;t think the telcos stand a chance of succeeding in cable TV. Instead, if they&#8217;re to succeed at all, they&#8217;ll probably buy or form alliances with existing cablecos. (Dale Hatfield put it most memorably when he said, &#8220;Duopoly is an optimistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}