Digital Content Wars - Cable Vs. Telephone

Posted on Tuesday, March 14 2006 @ 4:20 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
The TechZone looks at the war over digital content between the cable and telephone companies.

New Jersey isn't that big of a state that Alexander Graham Bell and David Sarnoff - two of the 20th Century's leading inventors, engineers and scientists - certainly must have bumped into each other periodically. If they had spent more time together and merged their respective laboratories in Murray Hill and Princeton we wouldn't have two content transport systems fighting over who is going to service our home today. But it didn't happen. Now there are too many people making a living with both men's inventions that it probably never will. It will just look similar. The Cable Guy and the Telephone Guy are both jockeying to be the bigger winner in delivering voice, data, video content to the home..

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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