http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Video-used-to-be-free-22632885 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:44:34 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:44:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22637775 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22637775 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:46:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22635758 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22635758 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:44:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22635057 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22635057 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:34:07 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22634167 Not quite correct

The original idea behind cable was to bring TV reception to the many rural people who didn't live in a city where the stations broadcast from.
CATV doen't stand for "cable TV", it stands for "community antenna TV" a single community antenna was erected in rural towns and TV was wired from the antenna to the townspeoples homes. Commercial free "pay channels" didn't enter the cable scene till some 25 to 30 years later]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22634167 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:33:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22633643 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22633643 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:07:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22633286 said by Morac:

OTA may be in a position to loose it's spot if it hasn't already. Many stations have started broadcasting sub-channels. Each channel can only carry 19.39 mbps of video. Take a 1080i HD channel and break off 2 SD subchannels and you've now made an okay looking HD channel, look noticeable worse.
OTA can still be better than cable. Cable usually shoehorns 3 HD channels(sometimes only 2 if ESPN is involved) in to 6 Mhz(38.8 mbps) of bandwidth. Divide the 38.8 mbps by 3 and cable is delivering HD channels in about 13 mbps of bandwidth. OTA can still better that while also delivering 2 480i subchannels in addition to the HD channel.
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As for quality of video, from what I have seen it goes like this for HD any way. Blu-ray>>>>>>OTA>>>>>>>Sat>>>>>cable.
OTA may be in a position to loose it's spot if it hasn't already. Many stations have started broadcasting sub-channels. Each channel can only carry 19.39 mbps of video. Take a 1080i HD channel and break off 2 SD subchannels and you've now made an okay looking HD channel, look noticeable worse.
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As for quality of video, from what I have seen it goes like this for HD any way. Blu-ray>>>>>>OTA>>>>>>>Sat>>>>>cable.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Video-used-to-be-free-22633110 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:57:29 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Video-used-to-be-free-22632885
The idea of paying for cable was originally supposed to be that you wouldn't get commercials. That idea quickly went by the way side and now it's not unusually to see "ads" (technically bugs) on premium channels.

(Non-pirated) Online video is supported by ads.

Jeff Bewkes did get one thing correct. We should be insulted, but not by free video. We should be insulted by the price we have to pay for cable TV, the constant rate hikes to "improve quality" and the actual lack of quality. That doesn't include frequent unexplained outages or other weird glitches that people experience.
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