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Re: Boycott 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. |
