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AT&T Fell for Media’s Inflated Sense of Self-Importance

Posted on Friday, March 15th, 2019 by William Cox

AT&T was wrong to acquire DirecTV and TimeWarner. Now what?

Books

Escapism

Posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 by Will Cox

I have not been bored since I learned to read. I would read anything and everything; and what with the public libraries and my family’s collection, I didn...

rant

The Browser History Fell Through a Memory Hole in my Pocket

Posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2018 by Will Cox

If not careful, the brogrammers responsible for the attention deficit economy and big data collection will find their work has gone the way of interactive telev...

communication/politics/rant

The Customer Perspective

Posted on Thursday, December 14th, 2017 by Will Cox

There’s too much wrong with the FCC — in all its various political, technical, and regulatory aspects — to get into arguments on the line. How...

General

Please, Sir, May I Have Some More?

Posted on Monday, November 13th, 2017 by Will Cox

Netflix noticed something strange and unexpected among users of their video streaming service: they would watch all of the available episodes of a series before...

communication/rant

You’re Dead. Stop Kicking Me.

Posted on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 by Will Cox

Interactive Television has always failed, and will always fail. A lesson from the early days of telephony is significant. Early on it was thought that telephony...

communication/economics

Hasta la Vista, Baby

Posted on Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 by Will Cox

We’re cancelling DirecTV service. It’s been about a year since purchasing the HDTV and the associated DirecTV package. Meanwhile, our viewing of ...

communication/rant

DirecTiVo, your return can not be too soon

Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 by Will Cox

Our DirecTiVo was dying. Every now and again, frequently at times, it stopped, hung. Maybe it waiting on a bad block on disk. Maybe it was just the heat. But th...

communication/family

Navel Gazing

Posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 by Will Cox

For one of her classes last year, D. wrote a paper which analyzes an effect of the self-absorption of the media, in response to one of the unfounded assertions ...

communication/economics

Counterdisintermediation, in an attempt to remain relevant

Posted on Monday, February 25th, 2008 by Will Cox

A famous character once opined, Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. The executives at ABC are determined to prove that axiom by launching a video-...

communication/rant

Can I Get a Real Person Here?

Posted on Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 by Will Cox

What does it take to get a real person on the phone these days? I don’t want to talk to the computer. I’m not talking to the computer. I did not buy...

communication

Cablevision Offers TiVo

Posted on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 by Will Cox

CED Magazine reports that Cablevision has signed a deal to market TiVo equipment to DISH and DirecTV customers. Someone’s been reading my journal. “...

communication

Not the TiVo!

Posted on Friday, January 7th, 2005 by Will Cox

DirecTV is effectively removing the impediment to my changing video providers. “We’ll support our existing TiVo customers,” a spokesman for Di...

communication/economics

No Video on Demand

Posted on Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 by Will Cox

Because HBO has nothing we want to watch while we wait for The Sopranos, because we’re not that desperate, and because DirecTV makes changing packages sim...

communication/economics

While I’m on the Subject

Posted on Thursday, August 19th, 2004 by Will Cox

Dear DirecTV, I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that you’ve lost a customer. My loyalties are to my TiVo. I can get plain TV anywhere. Just...

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