Some AOL Synergy - Finally

AOL Time Warner has at last done the synergy thing with Time Warner's content and AOL's pipes. AOL Broadband customers will get free CNN video streams. As the pop-up might say, "That's a retail value of five bucks a month for free!"

Will that be enough to get folks to migrate from AOL dial-up to AOL big pipe? Probably not alone, but it is a start. Besides, it is the only play the company has. It is just a wonder it didn't happen, oh, a week after the merger.

Comments

[Madog]

As a Comcast customer I just do a little cable splice, hook one line up to my cable modem and the other to my $40 TV card and I get about 70 channels on my computer for "free" each month. And I can use my computer as a DVR on top of that.

This looks like a case of too little too late.
If AOL-TW wanted to be truly creative and provide a service I'd be interested in, they'd allow you to stream any show on any of their stations at anytime their customers want to watch it.

[Jillsy Sloper]

Time Warner Cable sent me an e-mail the other day to let me know that I would now be getting access to CNN too. I think regular Road Runner is like $5/mo. cheaper than AOL Broadband.

If Madog will tell what software he uses to capture video from his TV card, I'll be eternally grateful.