This was the third most quarterly net adds ever for the top publicly reporting vMVPD services.” Things are particularly tricky for companies like Comcast and Charter.Neither competitive threat is quite large enough to yet drive wholesale change in the uncompetitive broadband industry, but it’s just enough to make recouping losses on the video side just a bit more annoying for everybody’s favorite, deeply entrenched, government-coddled, natural monopolies.The idea of using satellite internet access in an area dense enough to have apartment buildings is absurd, and Dish in particular has terrible latency (compared to Starlink for example, though it’s not clear Starlink could work with the limited sky view that comes from having a terminal on a balcony).Streaming on demand with no, or relatively few, commercials makes going back to the typical cable or broadcast experience an excruciating exercise.OTA DTV mixed with offline content portals may satisfy certain generations, cultures and lifestyles without the need to stay abreast of the limited trickle of mainstream media (they seem to be stuck respinning movies/shows/plots from decades ago)."