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kudos:3 | reply to pnh102
Re: 2 BUCKS!!! You say that they could negotiate a lower price if it (comcast) wanted to... the fact is that the content providers are going to raise their rates at every opportunity... Tom Cruise needs more money you know?
Who's to say that they are NOT negotiating a lower price? The truth is we don't... and we never will, so anything outside of that is an assumption. CV demonstrated that they were holding out becuase they didn't want to pay what ABC/Disney wanted.. it got the signal pulled. Comcast could very well be using it's power to hold prices down for all we know. I can say this, they may be expensive, however, I know other providers that are even more expensive...
Comcast used its size to build a bigger and better OnDemand service - in fact, they were the ones who pretty much pioneered what OnDemand is. Many other cable companies has crap for OnDemand becuase most networks wanted to use that platform as additional sources of revenue. Comcast wanted to carry it for free... its pretty clear who won that battle.
So it's not fair to say they aren't fighting to keep the prices down simply on the fact that we/no one really knows what goes on during the negos... |
