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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

Intel Is Reportedly Going To Destroy The Cable Model By Offering People The Ability To Subscribe To Individual Channels

Author:     JAY YAROW
Source:     Business Insider
Publication Date:     Jan. 1, 2013, 12:27 PM
 Link: Intel Is Reportedly Going To Destroy The Cable Model By Offering People The Ability To Subscribe To Individual Channels
Stephan:   This will be a huge deal. How many channels that you never look at are the package you pay for? Would you sign up for packet where only the channels you want are included, and you could expand or contract your subscription a channel at a time? I certainly would. If this happens, information and entertainment production and distribution will undergo a complete economic transformation. This is a whole new model, as this report describes. I think it is a good one. This is going to further the trend of non-corporate media.

Intel is reportedly on the cusp of delivering something that consumers around the world have been wanting for a long, long time.

Kelly Clay at Forbes reports Intel is going to blow up the cable industry with its own set-top box and an unbundled cable service.

Clay says Intel is planning to deliver cable content to any device with an Internet connection. And instead of having to pay $80 a month for two hundred channels you don’t want, you’ll be able to subscribe to specific channels of your choosing.

Here’s the key paragraph:

This set-top box, said by industry insiders to be available to a limited beta of customers in March, will offer cable channels delivered ‘over the top

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