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Really? AFAIK MLB's video service powers MLB, HBO, and soon Disney—it's already a reality. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/9/16118694/disney-bamtech-esp

• njarboe 9y ago
  Major League Baseball is a tech company. Love it.
• ghaff 9y ago
  As I say. Not surprised at all. It's a hard but well-understood problem that applies across a lot of content providers.
  • simonh 9y ago
    But surely you can perceive a difference between MLB, which developed in-house tech that gave them a competitive advantage versus other sports groups and enabled them to build a successful business providing that service to other companies, and the ones that buy in that tech. MLBs investment put them years ahead of their competition in that area.
    • ghaff 9y ago
      I'm not sure how much was the tech. It wasn't all developed in-house anyway; they were a big reference for at least EMC ages ago. But certainly, like a number of the more successful media/entertainment companies, they recognized that technology was important at a time when you couldn't just get it off the shelf. Today it's less clear that the tech is still as compelling a differentiator relative to the content.