<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Cable on OpTe.ch</title><link>https://www.opte.ch/tags/cable/</link><description>Recent content in Cable on OpTe.ch</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>&amp;copy; Mike Oertli</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:26:00 -0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.opte.ch/tags/cable/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Apple-Comcast Negotiations Could Open the Flood Gates Like Apple-AT&amp;T did in 2007</title><link>https://www.opte.ch/news/here-is-why-the-apple-comcast-negotiation-rumors-matter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:30:05 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://www.opte.ch/news/here-is-why-the-apple-comcast-negotiation-rumors-matter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Updated the title to be more representative of the content of the piece, will leave the link so previous links aren&amp;rsquo;t broken.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve &lt;a href="http://www.opte.ch/news/2014/2/21/reality-check-disrupting-the-tv-industry" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;written previously&lt;/a&gt; that the current television market is antiquated and that no progress on the Apple TV (whether literally a television set or just a new set top box with far advanced capabilities) can be made until that changes. I strongly believe this to be the case and, if I had to guess, is the only reason we haven&amp;rsquo;t seen a new Apple TV that goes from being &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/45428/apple-tv-remains-a-hobby-without-a-market/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;just a hobby&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; to another leg on the Apple product &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/02/11/apple-tv-imagined-by-steve-jobs-to-be-apples-fourth-leg-now-becomes-its-sixth" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;stool&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>