{"id":2519,"date":"2009-12-22T22:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2009-12-22T22:31:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:31:25","slug":"the_media_wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"The Media Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple, not content with its complete dominance of the music business, is <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2009\/12\/possible-apple-tv-subscription-service-faces-uphill-battle.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\">feeling out partners for a streaming video service<\/a> that might compete with traditional cable companies. It&#8217;s inevitable that most of the video we consume will eventually be delivered via the Internet, but it&#8217;s going to be a long time before the cable monopolies feel truly threatened by the likes of Apple and Netflix. We don&#8217;t yet have the broadband infrastructure to support the instant and uninterrupted delivery of content, at least not yet. I love the Netflix Instant Viewing service, but it&#8217;s a rare thing when I can watch a whole episode or movie without the video pausing to buffer. That just doesn&#8217;t happen when you turn on the television. I&#8217;ll be first in line when Apple or whoever offers a comprehensive and affordable video subscription service, but Comcast will probably have its greedy fingers in my wallet for a long time to come. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple, not content with its complete dominance of the music business, is feeling out partners for a streaming video service that might compete with traditional cable companies. It&#8217;s inevitable that most of the video we consume will eventually be delivered via the Internet, but it&#8217;s going to be a long time before the cable monopolies <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2519' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ED","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}