I think the only question is who theyll pay and what theyll pay bundled. Question everything: Merrill isnt a believer in industry gospels.
Obviously it's no use going hog wild, either; once you get past the mid-range, like other components, you'll get diminishing returns and pay bundles for minor luxuries like high-quality braiding or a small drop in noise levels.
RealNetworks' Shaffer acknowledged that the deal is similar to the paid bundling arrangements that AOL Time Warner 's America Online and other online services have with PC makers.
"The question that hasn't yet been answered is whether television viewing will consist of a single app that mimics the pay TV bundle or a series of different apps that together form a content experience," said Jon Miller, the chief digital officer at News Corporation, which owns Fox Broadcasting and cable channels like Fox News and FX.
One solution arrived at by Warburg Pincus, a New York outfit, is to stop merely buying and selling businesses and to build them from scratch instead.Why pay a bundle to buy an overpriced African oil-exploration firm, say, when you can hire a team of seasoned industry hands to recreate much the same thing for a lower price?
Instead, when AT&T in March announced its plans to launch its own streaming service, DirecTV Now, it said the idea would be to offer all the content you'd typically find in a regular pay TV bundle, but un-tether it from the set-top box.
Though, for this high complication and marques name you're going to pay a bundle.
And if, by chance, my client lost in court, it would win nothing and have to pay a bundle for the other side's legal fees and its own costs.
Only 20 of the archipelago's 88 islands are populated, which leaves plenty of untouched white-sand islands to explore; and given that international tourism has yet to penetrate deep into the Bissagos, you'll be able to find plenty of romantic beach-side cabins and oceanfront restaurants without having to pay a bundle in return.
"In addition to creating opportunity for linear networks, the emergence of Internet TV also enables new apps like Netflix, YouTube, MLB.tv and iTunes to build large-scale, direct-to-consumer services that are independent of the traditional (pay TV) bundle," Hastings wrote.
