| How is the price dropping? If my bill continues to climb? Back in 1997, I remember paying about 16.00 a month, and I got about 20 channels, of which I watched about 10 of them. Today, to get the 3 channels I WANT to watch, I would have to pay over $90.00. Sure, they give me 130 channels, but 120 of them are crap that I'll never watch. If the price was REALLY going down, then I should be paying about $6.00 a month for the 10 channels I want to pay for.
Forcing you to buy a 'bundle' of crap isn't 'lowering' prices, it's greed by the cable companies to increase their bottom line.
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go back and read the article.
"rising cable TV prices are actually dropping if you look at them right.."
you are obviously not looking at your cable bill correctly.
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| They put their right hand over the left eye and blink really fast,... that way, the numbers can look lower... |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to dcaponegro5
What is states is 'the price per channel is dropping', not the actual price of cable service.
200 channels (may be 10 of any interest) for ~$65
pay $ 15/month for HBO/Starz/Showtime, etc.
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40 channels (may be 10 of any interest) for $45
optional pay $15 for HBO/Starz/Showtime, etc.
I'd obviously pay for the 40 channels of what I would use.
A la carte programming will be pricey per channel, ($1 to $5/channel), and would probably also raise the price of the bundles (as many would drop them completely), and all those junk channels would dissapear. New forms of bundling would (and already are) appearing.
'News' bundles
'Family' bundles
'Sports' bundles
'Science' bundles
'Kids' bundles
etc.
Either way, cable/satellite programmers know how to make money, and will make it wether you have 200 channels with 190 junk or 40 channels and 30 junk... cost of service will be roughly the same, its just packaged differently. |
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | reply to dcaponegro5
These aren't the droids you're looking for.... |
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| reply to karlmarx
As long as they have a certain wealthy demographic group in their clutches then they can raise prices all they want.
As long as there is only 2 players then they can make a case for more price increases. |
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