[mythtv-users] Comcast 'flees $45bn monster-merger with Time Warner Cable'

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Stephen P. Villano
<stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 4/23/15 4:37 PM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>> Looks like the merger was killed
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/23/comcast_45bn_twc_gobble_declared_dead_in_the_water/
>>
>> Doug
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> That's good news,

Not entirely, at least for MythTV users.  Time Warner is one of the
most MythTV hostile providers out there.  Being acquired by Comcast,
which is much friendlier by comparison, could have been a good thing
for many people on this list.  Given that TW and Comcast don't
actually compete for customers, the people negatively impacted by this
consolidation would have been content producers, not consumers, as the
combined company would have had more leverage in negotiating
contracts.  Conceivably, this could have been passed on to consumers
as savings.  (Ok, maybe that last point is going too far...)

Eric