| Per Channel I wouldn't mind paying per channel. I only want a handful of channels anyway. I only have the basic 2-13 right now because I can't afford the next tier. If I could pay per channel I'd do it.
They would probably make it restrictive to the point of being meaningless however. Like $10 per channel if you get them individually. So the price of the bundle of 50 channels would cost just a little more than the cost of 5 individual channels. |
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join:2001-11-28
Ohio
kudos:1 | said by Diaboyos:I wouldn't mind paying per channel. I only want a handful of channels anyway. I only have the basic 2-13 right now because I can't afford the next tier. If I could pay per channel I'd do it. They would probably make it restrictive to the point of being meaningless however. Like $10 per channel if you get them individually. So the price of the bundle of 50 channels would cost just a little more than the cost of 5 individual channels. This is exactly what will happen. They will charge $10 per channel or $45 for the package of 50 basic channels. They will also have some restrictive "pricing" that will make HBO $50.00 stand alone or $13.00 when purchased with the $45.00. Not much will change.
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I used to have a la carte satellite with my old C band dish, it was great!
I spent about $10/month for the 10 channels that I watched. Sports programming was MUCH more expensive, since I didn't have to subsidize those expensive channels I got what I paid for and paid for what I got.
If I wanted some premium movie channels I would pay for them a la carte. If I didn't want something like USA that has so many advertisements, time compresses movies, and splatter graphics all over the programming I'd vote with my dollars.
If a channel that I wanted couldn't survive on what I was willing to pay for it or if there weren't enough others interested in paying for it it would die, nobody had to subsidize it.
I REALLY don't like subsidizing other people's viewing tastes. I also don't like the "Family Friendly" crowd co opting the a la carte phrase to basically make a "Family Friendly" package.
Anyway, don't tell me that a la carte doesn't work, I used it for years before the whole C band thing died out... |
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| Is the C band the huge satellite dishes? The old kind? I had the huge kind of satellite dish in my old home years ago. It was fantastic!
For a mere $50 a month I had hundreds and hundreds of channels. I had like 10 HBO's, 10 Cinemax's, 10 Showtimes, like 200 music channels. It was great. I don't think the new satellites (Directv or Dish Network) have a $50 a month plan that gives you like 600 channels. I could be wrong because I haven't really looked but I don't think they do.
Why could the big satellites do it but the small ones can't? I miss my old home... |
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by Diaboyos:Is the C band the huge satellite dishes? The old kind? I had the huge kind of satellite dish in my old home years ago. It was fantastic! For a mere $50 a month I had hundreds and hundreds of channels. I had like 10 HBO's, 10 Cinemax's, 10 Showtimes, like 200 music channels. It was great. I don't think the new satellites (Directv or Dish Network) have a $50 a month plan that gives you like 600 channels. I could be wrong because I haven't really looked but I don't think they do. Why could the big satellites do it but the small ones can't? I miss my old home... Was primestar C band?
I had that, had a 8 foot dish in the back yard(New york)
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| What I should have said was Big Ugly Dish - I actually got C and Ku band and both analog and multiplexed digital feeds.
I think that Primestar was a multiplexed digital feed using Ku band. Well, here is a little information: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primestar
It's probably not fair to compare the old and the new services where technological advances and inflation play a part, but I did want to point out that a la carte was working before it go squashed. |
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