| There are alternatives to the cable-tv monopoly Plenty of TV streams are available over the internet these days so, the necessity of being a cable-tv subscriber are slowly falling by the wayside. Movie / TV show dvd rentals as well as online subscriptions are becoming more mainstream than you might think.. Once people figure out a way to conveniently program a TIVO with IMOVIE/IVIDEO through their broadband connection-- cable-tv's days are NUMBERED. Rate increases won't be so easy to get past savvy computer literate broadband enabled internet subscribers. They'll get their tv, just not with a paid subscription.
What P2P did for music, will do the same or WORSE to a multi-billion dollar cable industry, sooner or later. Don't forget, the cable industry only controls ONE pipe into the home, the other is controlled by a telco, who is quite pissed off they lost phone subscribers over the past decade. Bring on those symmetric streaming rates, TELCO!
Woo-Hoo! |
