patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to fifty nine
Re: Boycott said by fifty nine:I probably want maybe four or five cable only channels on cable TV - Discovery, Fox News, CNN, Comedy Central and Nat Geo. Yet I'm forced to pay for over 100 channels of mostly junk, including channels like WE and LIfetime which I will never watch. So my guess is that it's legal. Thats communism! Where are the free market soldiers on DSLReports? |
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| said by patcat88:said by fifty nine:I probably want maybe four or five cable only channels on cable TV - Discovery, Fox News, CNN, Comedy Central and Nat Geo. Yet I'm forced to pay for over 100 channels of mostly junk, including channels like WE and LIfetime which I will never watch. So my guess is that it's legal. Thats communism! Where are the free market soldiers on DSLReports? i would very much like a la carte programming, but cable companies and content providers are fighting this tooth and nail. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | reply to patcat88
What's communistic about it? Seem fairly capitalistic to me...strategically sell more goods than the consumer wishes to purchase. Sounds like a capitalist wet dream to me. |
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 Z801 point 77Premium
join:2009-08-31
Amerika
1 edit | reply to fifty nine
Ditto. I would like to see a la carte options. A la carte wouldn't mean the end of the typical packages, just more options for consumers. If content providers had to compete for ever customer, the sucky channels would die and content for the others would improve.
HBO is a la carte, and on many channels the Discoveries are on a higher tier. Why not USA or ESPN? Basic cable is FULL of worthless filler channels and the costs are increasing rapidly, even in the middle of a horrid recession.
The corporate shills want to scream free markets unless it comes to channels having to earn their business from subscribers. Then they advocate the channel welfare model.
If Cox wants to offer this extra content fine, but keep the dumb pipe dump and cheap and offer a package with the extra stuff. If such a package or packages included various content like a IGN subscription (like Comcast did), ESPN360, MLB.TV, Rhapsody/Napster, Superpass, maybe a few hours of Netflix streaming and some other premium content and/or software people would sign up just like they sign up for higher cable video tiers. |
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