Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong

Posted by TarpitCarnivore on Sunday February 23, 2014 @08:47PM
from the blog.streamingmedia.com dept.

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Re:Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Get... by bifrost on Monday February 24, 2014 @04:37PM (#7293560)

"Given that Netflix has many options to buy transit from many different transit providers, why would they pay more? They wouldn’t."

Spot on. This is why most reporting about the issue has been wrong. Granted this article isn't perfect, its shows much more insight than others.

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Re:Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Get... by TarpitCarnivore on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @08:01AM (#7304644)

What I appreciated was they he calls himself out for not being a true expert, but did his best to understand the situation.

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Re:Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Get... by bifrost on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:48AM (#7311109)

No kidding. His take was much more accurate than others AFAIK.

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Re:Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Get... by Sweeet on Monday February 24, 2014 @03:05PM (#7293096)

I love how this was pushed to the bottom.

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