1 edit | It's not likely That the cable companies will cut their own throats any time soon, especially since this would be "voluntary" (and we know what corporations think of voluntary, dont we?). It would be nice if you could just order the channels you want when you order cable, but then, they would just start pricing them individually and the prices would just keep marching up. The solution, of course, is to just let the non viable channels that no one carries (Like TRIO for example) die a natural death, instead of propping them up somehow. Certain of the movie channels that repeat the same movies allmost nightly for months on end (BRAVO comes to mind) would be prime cantidates. After all, how many times can one watch The Sands of Iwo Jima? Or, The Godfather, Part 2? PLEASE.
No, the only break from escallating prices will come when the telcos (or, whomever steps up finally) begin offering TV service competittion over fiber. Make no mistake, it WILL happen. It will just take time. Fiber is, in the end, the only viable way for the telcos to go if they want to compete. |
