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• 1. Anonymous  |  October 7th, 2008 at 12:31 am

  I actually do watch online video on my TV, but that tutorial started to sound pretty confusing for those who haven’t done it before. Wouldn’t it be easier to get whatever channel it is over the air? Or just on your computer? It seems like those options should come first in the tutorial, so TWC can say, “See? It’s easy!” and then give the “advanced” option afterward.

• 2. Contrarian  |  October 7th, 2008 at 5:04 am

  Oh, good, piss off your viewers in a dispute they couldn’t possibly care less about.

• 3. Rocker  |  October 7th, 2008 at 6:08 am

  Hmm, not that this will have any impact…or at least, TW should hope it doesn’t. Totally undermines their primary revenue stream if the message sinks in that I can watch what I want without paying to subscribe to 500 “channels”.

• 4. Emanon  |  October 7th, 2008 at 7:38 am

  Does TWC actually think that this is a sufficient replacement for local TV? All this is is telling you how to use your TV as a computer monitor, big deal. They make the assumption in this video that the show you want to watch is available on the networks website, which it may or may not be.

• 5. tdc  |  October 7th, 2008 at 7:49 am

  yes, i do think twc is telling viewers that their computer will soon be their source for local tv.

  i point to perry sook’s nexstar as the one who went around swinging his meat on how they were going to get big $ from all the other local service providers… so much so nexstar, the last i looked their shares are $1.50.

• 6. Don Day  |  October 7th, 2008 at 8:27 am

  Ummm… if I can get the shows from LIN stations online with my computer wired to my TV… I can get most of all the other shows on cable the same way.

  That’s some good thinkin’!

• 7. tdc  |  October 7th, 2008 at 8:45 am

  yup, they’ll still own the cable though.

  did i just see where hulu is live streaming tonight’s debate?

• 8. mako  |  October 7th, 2008 at 11:14 am

  Where’s the part how to explain to your spouse why there are cables running all over your house and how laptop has been redeployed to watch last night’s Leno?

• 9. Anonymous  |  October 7th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  Most hit cable shows aren’t available online, though. The big exceptions are The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

• 10. Tech  |  October 7th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  It is reported that TWC has approximately 300,000 customers in the greater Dayton area. Of that,less than 10% watch WDTN at any one time, and that is probably a stretch. WDTN says they want only “pennies a day”, but they want it for all 300,000 subscribers, and that amounts to about 1 Million dollars a year per penny?

  WDTN doesn’t even say how many pennies a day they want? Pennies is plural, we know they want at least 2, but could it be 3, or 99. WDTN is playing you for the fool if you really believe theit “cents” argument.

  Lin TV so far this year has lost $211 million dollars, and are trying to make up for poor performance, primarily due to poor management, poor quality programming, poor supervision, and poor oversight, all of which, at least in Dayton, can be attributed to Lisa Barhorst, VP & GM of WDTN in Dayton..

• 11. Dan  |  October 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

  Mr. Tech,
  Perhaps you might want to do some research into how
  cable networks are paid by TWC and other cable
  companies. FOX, CNN, ESPN…. they charge quite a bit
  per month per subscriber. Why do you think you are paying $50 a month for cable? It’s not because of the local stations the cable companies retransmit for pennies I can tell you that.

  Dan

• 12. Anonymous  |  October 12th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

  Riddle me this…

  HAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAAAHAAHAAAHAA!

• 13. online television  |  October 17th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

  Online TV will never replace regular tv, but more and more ppl are beginning to use there computers to watch live tv channels.

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