Time Warner Cable and Viacom Settle Lawsuit Over iPad Television Streaming

[macrushfan]

Why the hell you want to stream that TV content to your TV while your TV is connected to the cable.

It is my wife's iPad. She likes to spend my $$$ on QVC and the stream is HD on the TWC app but not on cable. Yes it is sad but in reality it is the principle of it Oddly enough the standalone QVC app does do airplay but the stream is not very good quality.

 

[skellener]

Dinosaurs make pact. In a few years it won't matter. They'll just be dumb pipes anyway.

 

[morespce54]

Isn't that like... streamed TV over the Internet with an Apple device?
OMG, quick, someone tell the TWC CEO about it or he will miss it... again!

 

[vampyr]

Greed

Will I ever live long enough to see a time in our lives when GREED is no longer the dominate motivation for corporations?

Will there ever be a lawsuit or ruling that a company files against another company because they want to offer their services to everyone rather than complaining that they aren't getting their own 'piece of the pie'??

Another reason why I no longer subscribe to cable television or watch television. Media companies in general are ALL greedy bastards who care nothing for the consumer.

 

[d21mike]

Is that legal, and that's the reason Airplay won't work in this App.

Is what legal? You ask "why would you want to stream to your TV when you TV is connected to your Cable?". My answer was to get rid of the Cable STB's. I did not say do it illegally. Verizon FIOS Labs are working on a new DVR that has about 6 turners and they will connect to that with ATV "size" boxes over the in house network or via an App in your XBOX or in your TV. This would eliminate the STB for each TV. Now that 6 turner DVR may be expensive but maybe not the same price as 6 STB's and also the energy needed to power them. Also, would make for a nicer setup in the home.

See the video explaining it here:

http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2011-12/verizon-preps-fios-tv-media-server/

 

[Mr. F]

It's just plain old greed. They still show the commercials, they were just trying to squeeze more money out of the consumer. What difference could it possibly make to them what device we see the commercials on?

It would be nice if they redirected that energy to improving their product instead.

 

[Ciclismo]

Will I ever live long enough to see a time in our lives when GREED is no longer the dominate motivation for corporations?

Corporations are greedy because their stockholders are greedy. And stockholders are people like you and me. So the real problem is that greed will continue to be the core motivation for most businesses as long as Joe Average is only looking out for número uno.

 

[GenesisST]

i'm sorry, but i already pay for unwanted minutes and texts on top of my data allowance (even though all are just data anyway). How i use my data allowance should be up to me. It isn't stealing, because i'm not using anything i haven't already paid for, i'm just using it in a different way.

Imagine you get your water bill, but the water company has decided to charge you by your usage in showers, cooking, and gardening - all at different costs.

Gardening is most expensive, so i water my plants in the shower.

Am i stealing? it's the same water i'm paying for.

 

[Bheleu]

I'm sorry, but I already pay for unwanted minutes and texts on top of my data allowance (even though all are just data anyway). How I use my data allowance should be up to me. It isn't stealing, because I'm not using anything I haven't already paid for, I'm just using it in a different way.

Imagine you get your water bill, but the water company has decided to charge you by your usage in showers, cooking, and gardening - all at different costs.

Gardening is most expensive, so I water my plants in the shower.

Am I stealing? It's the same water I'm paying for.

Typically in the city at least, they do charge you differently. If you use over a certain amount of water you pay higher tier prices because like water, bandwidth is a finite resourse and must be conserved. Likewise, if you get the second line for the lawn. You can get that water at a lower rate, and are not charged for wastewater (it going into the sewer). You are billed for what you use, and for how you use it. Additionally you are charged a fee for having a meter as well.

This is a very good analogy because most people want to tether because they purchased a cheap water line intended for lawns only (unlimited data for the device only) and they want to use that water hooked up into their house and avoid paying the wastewater charge (jailbroken/untethered). Thanks for making this extremely clear to me... and the reason they charge so much for wastewater is because they have to reprocess it. The reason they have to charge so much for data is because it is different from voice and requires more resources. You can sacrifice voice quality up to a point; however, your higher bandwidth requires better quality ie. more expensive hardware and they have to pay the government for the bandwidth used (licensing fees). Competition keeps licensing fees high which goes back into your cost as consumer. Had the TMobile/ATT merger happened it would have been great for both sets of customers, but hurt their competition.

 

[Geckotek]

Woo hoo!

This is great news.

It was a drag to log onto TW Cable on my iPad and see so many channels missing. That app just got a lot better.

Have it, never use it. Seems useless. Of course I don't have to share my TV with anyone so perhaps that's why??

 

[JAT]

The reason they have to charge so much for data is because it is different from voice and requires more resources. You can sacrifice voice quality up to a point; however, your higher bandwidth requires better quality ie. more expensive hardware and they have to pay the government for the bandwidth used (licensing fees).

That's all well and good about water. But the whole "2nd line" deal does not apply to this discussion. It's all the same data, it isn't voice vs data that is being discussed. When you already have a limit on the data plan of 2GB or whatever, the carrier dictating how you use it is pointless. Note VZW noticed this and allows tethering on more plans, now.

 

[Don Kosak]

Well, this whole conversation has gotten a bit off-topic, but I'll chime in anyway.

Back when AT&T (and others) were doing "unlimited" plans I strongly felt that they had full rights to charge for Tethering. After all, it was unlimited only because there was only so much you could do on your cell phone. If you tethered it, you could theoretically have unlimited data for a whole house.

After they went to a $10 a gigabyte model, my opinion changed. I felt they should allow you to use that finite bucket of bytes for anything you desired. After all, the more you use, the more they charge you.

Most mobile operators seem to have a lot of legacy pricing from "the days of olde".

I still get charged 25 cents a text message -- as though that 140 characters is a huge data package. Pretty ridiculous pricing.

I'm hoping that this "settlement" between the studios and Time Warner Cable is a sign that pricing is becoming more rational.