Three independent but related announcements on Monday reveal the power of the Internet to reinvent distribution. They also highlight the importance of net neutrality in maintaining the delicate balance that currently sustains the business models of some of the biggest online players. Google and Verizon talked about their plan for Net Neutrality, Netflix continued to shore up its streaming catalog and AT&T announced U-verse TV-Everywhere content to the mobile phone. All three announcements are interesting in themselves. But taken together they illustrate how even minor changes to the status quo could destroy the most robust of online business models....
When it comes to delivering Over the Top Video to the television, there are two models that encompass virtually every approach. Those that outright replace (supplant) paytv service and those that provide additional content to augment (supplement) paytv. If we look at some of the winners and the failures of the recent OTT market, there is evidence which model will dominate in the short term.
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