How Apple TV is going disrupt the industry

[rikscha]

Are you from the USA? If not, do not beleive what you read and hear; I love it when people tell me things about the US, as an American living outside of the country; it makes me laugh. I do not know of any family that has a TV in every single room and I do not know of any person that watches TV 90 percent of the time.

Beleive it or not, most families have one or two televisions, most people do not watch TV from the moment they get into the house, a lot of us work, go to school, play sports, shop, go out to eat...oh wait, all Americans are fat, so we should stay home and eat...oh wait, all Americans are lazy we should go out more....oh wait alll Americans do not spend enough time at home with family...

There are 350 million Americans, do not lump the majority in with the minority. But even if someone DID want to watch a lot of TV SO WHAT??? If it bring them happiness, enjoment and it is WHAT THEY WANT TO DO, who cares what someone from some other country says? I love it when people tell other people what they should and should not do for enjoyment of thier lives.

Rant over!

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Yes I know; but in many countries it is not like that and the money that is currently being generated is not easily dismissed.

But a fair amount of Americans is either fat or obese.
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

Not sure, why I should not believe it.

I think you missed my point and I was actually making one instead of you, who was just ranting.
A quick look through this forum and you will find many people with 4-5 Apple TVs in their house. Not that this would have any validity but I am just surprised how you are discounting this fact fairly easily.

I could go on and on but this is not part of this topic. My point was that, if people were less dependent on their TV , channel networks would not be in this excellent position, where they can deliver low quality TV for a high price. I think you are just not aware how television looks like in other countries, while I do.

I think a tv on demand service provided by Apple would be great, I want to watch what I want, when I want it. I like what Netflix did, when they brought out their own TV series which is great by the way.

 

[Giuly]

How Apple TV is going disrupt the industry

It's a TV. From Apple. With an aluminum enclosure. And a remote with seven buttons instead of 127.

Should be enough to disrupt the industry.

 

[paulrbeers]

Why haven't "they" figured out a fair way to offer channels "piecemeal"? Something where you can assemble your own cable "packages", "x" dollars per channel. "Pick any 10 channels for $5/channel/mo...any 20 channels for $4/channel/mo"...something like that.

That would never work. It wouldn't be a Pick 10 channels for X dollars. The reason why? ESPN gets something like $15 for the 4-5 channels you get with your cable package (they are the most expensive channels due to popularity). However, your cable provider gets PAID to offer you things like the HSN and others. Some are also free to the cable company (think new start up cable channels). So basically, they can't just let you pick from a list for X dollars. The reason why is the vast majority would want the most popular which equals the most expensive. The best we could hope for is that you get to pay whatever it costs the Cable Co + X% mark up. You would end up with a price list of every channel and what it costs you and you would have to make your own bundle based on that. We would also have to completely ditch analog cable. I know that is happening in a lot of places (and might even be true where I live now, but I left our cable monopoly a long time ago so I have no idea).