 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
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 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·DIRECTV
| Digital TV tuners can block! This problem will be solved by 2008 or whatever the date is that Analog TV dies and you have to have a digital tuner.
All digital tuners offered by cable companies can be locked down with a pin-code, and you can block selective channels from being displayed.
This way mom and dad can watch their Comedy Central or HBO when the kids went to bed.
As for a-la-carte, I can see it will be an enourmous administrative hassle to get it right. They are much better off to offer certain packages, and let the parents decide by using a digital tuner what they can and cannot see. Or perhaps start with a digital "kid safe" package.
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George W. Bush on Clinton going into Kosovo, 1999: “I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
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| Actually they can implement a la carte now. They need to get off their arses and do it.
Just take the internet's RSS model for listing which shows you can subscribe to. THen make your selections and get charged for them per month or pay per view.
No more channel numbers to deal with, just a "next" channel and a "previous" channel. Couple this with a better remote control that doesn't have a number pad and you can watch actual shows without the hassle of channel numbers.
If the internet can support streaming on demand, the cable companies can do the same. |
