Re: UKNM: DTV Industry: Is There One?

[Ian Betteridge]

Ben Thompson wrote:


> Hardly, I would have thought that the NTL sale would be easier. Here

> for �15 a month have a phone line and that digital TV everyone is

> talking about (oh by the way you get most of the Sky channels and all

> the ondigital channels included). The NTL sale will probably not even

> mention interactivity or the Internet.


Why should NTL charge less and give you more? �15?


> Remember, none of the cable

> companies understand the internet or care about it. Otherwise most of

> us would already have cable modems.


What the cable companies understand is that the phone business is very profitable:

Why whould they equip people with cable modems when they can sell a more profitable

second phone line?


> Or you can go and spend �200 on a box that just provides internet

> access. While the system might look good and I can see a scenario where

> it would be popular I have serious doubts about it in the UK.


Have you ever seen it in action, and do you watch a lot of TV? I do, I have, and I

want one - and I already have a computer at home to access the net.


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