patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | business models The cable TV service is free because of the ad space that is given to the cable TV company by the channel owners. Your just a sucker for paying for it. Same with a magazine such as Time or Newsweek, the magazine makes all of its money from the advertisers, the $4 you pay at the newsstand just goes straight to the newsstand owner, how do you think you can get a 1 year subscription for $15 a year? Same with a newspaper, the newspaper is nearly free, what it costs at retail is just pays the stores rent. The newspaper/Cable TV company should be paying YOU to watch them, because you are $ in terms of impressions.
This is all sneaky business model, I once saw an ad for a $100K house, land not included, guess which real estate developer just got a free (or profitable demolition)!
Another famous example is a fortune 500 supermarkets. They rent shelf space to the vendor on a per month basis, then they apply a tax to anything the vendor sells in the store. Profit from your upstream, profit from you downstream, the american way to be a capitalist.
"you pay me to crush your car or get rid of your scrap metal/recycling metal cans, you need to get rid of it, and you have no other choice, so I will make profit from taking the scrap metal from you, and then make a profit selling the scrap metal I got for negative free on the wholesale market"
And this is why we need Tru2Way, but AFAIK, Tru2Way uses Java and complete control of the GUI of the client device, so even with Tru2Way, you will still see pop up ads. 2 way cable card with XML IPG/VOD supplied data should be the proper way to wrestle control from the barons of capitalism. |
