| uverse rates No one should be surprised by this. It's standard operating procedure for video providers. 
I went with HD-OTA and a TivoHD 7 months ago. $150 a month for TV service is flat out crazy. Netflix streaming and Amazon downloads are much cheaper. $2 a pop for 2 once-weekly TV shows that aren't OTA sure beats $150 for all those channels I never used. Having Netflix on the Tivo now makes it even better.
I'm less than 1000-feet from the VRAD that would service my home. I would switch from Comcast to uVerse for internet access if ATT's data caps were on par with Comcast (250GB). My daughter uses the Amazon video and Netflix constantly. I'm probably close to the 150GB/month ATT caps now.
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| said by Lyserjic:$2 a pop for 2 once-weekly TV shows that aren't OTA sure beats $150 for all those channels I never used. But your TV viewing habits aren't the average American. The average person in the US watches TV 28 hours/week. Have a household with the average 4 people and that is a lot of TV and a lot of different channels. So you have to look at that cost per person and NOT just per household.
»www.csun.edu/science/health/docs···tv_stats
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:said by Lyserjic:$2 a pop for 2 once-weekly TV shows that aren't OTA sure beats $150 for all those channels I never used. But your TV viewing habits aren't the average American. The average person in the US watches TV 28 hours/week. Have a household with the average 4 people and that is a lot of TV and a lot of different channels. So you have to look at that cost per person and NOT just per household. » www.csun.edu/science/health/docs···tv_stats And while your source may be reputable it still fails to show the average user doesn't watch all 280 channels 28 hours a week.
So logically the price model should be ala cart since 28 hours might be CNN/ESPN/FOX/HGTV.... or what ever the combination.
Viewers only need to pay for what they watch not a bunch of channels they may never watch.
If you did see this prices might go up but, it would benefit the subscriber and yes the content provider would get more revenue since users are not forced to pay for channels they don't watch.
You might do well thinking more logically not by your own viewing habits, that said if you yourself watch 280 channels all month every month. |
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