{"id":3832,"date":"2013-03-22T19:49:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T00:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2013-03-22T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T00:49:16","slug":"its-not-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3832","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While cord-cutting (dropping cable television in favor of streaming video over the Internet) is still a fringe phenomenon, the Internet loves to speculate about about if and when HBO will offer a broadband-only subscription. Until recently, network executives dismissed the idea, saying that they were happy with their current business model. But this week, they hinted that <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2013\/03\/hbo-go-maybe-could-evolve-into-a-broadband-based-subscription\/\">HBO could eventually be a surcharge on your Internet bill<\/a> instead of your cable bill. Possibly. Maybe. In most cases, cable and Internet providers are the same entity, so HBO could probably renegotiate existing contracts.<\/p>\n<p>HBO executives are certainly aware that most networks have digital offerings and that the market is inexorably shifting to on-line distribution models, which makes it more likely than not that we&#8217;ll see broadband-only HBO subscriptions in the next couple years. I&#8217;d certainly sign up for one, assuming that I can still watch the sexposition on <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> in all of its sweaty high-definition glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While cord-cutting (dropping cable television in favor of streaming video over the Internet) is still a fringe phenomenon, the Internet loves to speculate about about if and when HBO will offer a broadband-only subscription. Until recently, network executives dismissed the idea, saying that they were happy with their current business model. But this week, they <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3832' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ZO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","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=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}