John Sununu and Harold Ford (and the Large MVPD/Broadband Providers) Would Like You to Know Netflix is Unfair to All Americans. Really? Bill Niemeyer, Senior Analyst This week in the San Jose Mercury News, former U.S. Senator John Sununu and former U.S. Congressperson Harold Ford wrote (or at least bylined...

John Sununu and Harold Ford (and the Large MVPD/Broadband Providers) Would Like You to Know Netflix is Unfair to All Americans. Really? Bill Niemeyer, Senior Analyst This week in the San Jose Mercury News, former U.S. Senator John Sununu and former U.S. Congressperson Harold Ford wrote (or at least bylined...

In an interview on Wednesday, DIRECTV Senior Director of Product Management Alex Kaplan told Multichannel News that the satellite MVPD would be offering the full NFL Sunday Ticket subscription package on a standalone basis to PlayStation 3 owners. The price apparently has not been set, as Multichannel...

In the days before broadband was reaching the majority of U.S. households, a PayTV subscription was essential to the well-informed and happily entertained consumer. The only way to see the news at 3 AM, catch the latest Michael Jackson video or watch a Star Trek re-run was with a PayTV subscription....

As you likely know by now, DirecTV this week officially announced its premium VoD service , Home Premiere, making it the first PayTV service provider to go live with a VoD service that rents new movies for $29.99 60 days after their theatrical debut. The first title on the service is Sony's Just...

New Premium VoD Pricing Schemes Will Undermine Demand New Research from TDG Shows Even Aggressive Rental Windows Are Unlikely to Attract Sufficient Consumer Response at Today’s Premium Levels Frisco, TX (April 4, 2010) – According to new research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), premium video...

DirecTV this week joined the iPad app parade, launching its own application to the Apple iPad App Store . No doubt the announcement was timed to this week's iPad 2 announcements: nice move. But does it measure up against other TV provider's iPad-based interfaces (e.g., Comcast's Xfinity or...