Integration is a formidable challenge. It's not so much a question of any individual player or a particular product; it's just a matter of whether they can dance together.
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The stand-alone unit is dead
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Installation is potentially a massive sinkhole for all the players in this space
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It's the most watched percentage of television.
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The media business is increasingly difficult to compete in effectively if you're not a media conglomerate. They've taken it as far as they can and it's time to move on.
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If you go a la carte, that messes with the math there.
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This maps onto Yankee Group research. We, too, have found that men are heavier users of these technologies than women, and better educated people tend to have more consumer-electronic devices than other segments.
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This will mean that they cannot imagine life without consumer-electronics devices.
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There are incentives, but in the U.S. -- with 85 percent of people subscribing to paid TV services -- it's hard to see direct over-the-air TV service having much impact in the future.
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Microsoft is a very good software company. They are not a distribution company or a content-creation company. NBC is better at television.
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