<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Wed, 2018-11-21 at 15:10 -0800, Brian Santo wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">Speaking as someone who cut the cord 15 years ago, pay TV packages are still not a bad deal for people who watch a lot of TV, and that's why I think there are still tens of millions of payTV subscribers, and will be for some time. The industry may be losing subs, but for the short-term future, they are subs the industry can afford to lose. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed.</div><div><br></div><div>The cable business is a mess. Cable tech--yes even at Comcast--is fine. I had dinner a few weeks back with the engineer in charge of their set-top boxes. He _knows_ his stuff and he tells me so does his team. He wouldn't talk about the business side, and, for the reasons Brian mentioned, I can understand why.</div><div><br></div><div>Steven </div><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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