RayW
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Re: I get 99 channels...
said by Rob  :I get 99 channels right now. I watch at most 10 of those. The others are 'fillers' to keep my (rising) cost of TV service down. I doubt, seriously, that if A La Carte was available, that my 10 channels would be any cheaper. Of course not, since the providers have to prove that Martin et al. are wrong they will raise the cost of service by some calculated amount so that every time you say you do NOT want a channel, they increase your total bill. (Seems to me the providers have basically said that is what they will do, because it costs more to tell the computer to only to send you what you want????)
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| said by RayW :said by Rob :I get 99 channels right now. I watch at most 10 of those. The others are 'fillers' to keep my (rising) cost of TV service down. I doubt, seriously, that if A La Carte was available, that my 10 channels would be any cheaper. Of course not, since the providers have to prove that Martin et al. are wrong they will raise the cost of service by some calculated amount so that every time you say you do NOT want a channel, they increase your total bill. (Seems to me the providers have basically said that is what they will do, because it costs more to tell the computer to only to send you what you want????) They could easily provide a small number of different tiers. |
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Tulsa, OK | yeah, but every tier would include just one channel you want, and then 20 shopping and sports channels you dont.
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NPGMBR
join:2001-03-28
Arlington, VA | reply to RayW
Something about this just doesn't make sense. U.S. Companies are always trying to squeeze an extra dollar out of their customers so you'd think they would jump all over A La Carte pricing.........Unless in fact it truly would drop prices. |
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marigolds
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| Depends on which companies you mean.
Cable companies are basically contracturally forbidden by the content providers from using a la carte. The content providers would get a smaller share of cable revenue under a la carte while a greater part of the revenue would go to system maintainence.
So, the content providers would lose money, the cable companies cannot do anything, and price would not change much.
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NPGMBR
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Arlington, VA
| I see problems with that model. The content providers need to Cable operators to delivery their product. You'd think the CableCos would have the upper-hand but judging from what you said, they give the content providers all the power. I would have thought that the CableCos would try to snatch that power from the content providers when they sign their next contract because they need eachother other equally. |
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