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The "court of public opinion" didn't prevented walled gardens on the mobile world. People wouldn't stop watching BigStudio if they didn't offer their service fo
by marcodiego 5y ago
The "court of public opinion" didn't prevented walled gardens on the mobile world. People wouldn't stop watching BigStudio if they didn't offer their service for a TV vendor, people would just buy from the vendor who bowed to the imposed conditions.
In Brazil, there's nothing legally preventing you from recording OTA TV but no big name TV vendor add a unencrypted record feature. You can find it on cheap digital decoders which have no support for streaming or apps. I don't think this is mere coincidence, I think streaming services and content producers already pressure TV vendors to not support "unwanted features"; in exchange, they gain the right to include some apps out-of-the-box.
- gruez 5y ago>The "court of public opinion" didn't prevented walled gardens on the mobile world That's more like megacorp vs consumers, not megacorp vs megacorp. Trying to force vendors to remove piracy apps would be closer to the latter. As a concrete example, apple's app tracking transparency seem so be doing pretty well.
- marcodiego 5y agoSo how to you explain the complete lack of recording features on TV sets that support streaming services?
- gruez 5y agoThe complete lack of recording features? I can't comment about brazil because I don't like there, but in the US they're pretty popular, to the point that cable providers even advertise it as a feature, eg. https://www.xfinity.com/learn/digital-cable-tv/x1 https://www.xfinity.com/learn/digital-cable-tv/x1 (search for "DVR")
- marcodiego 5y agoHmmm... Actually I don't think I made myself clear enough. When I said "record" I meant "unencrypted record to external media".