HBO Pens 10 Year Exclusive Deal With Universal → Pay for HBO?

I have no reason to pay for HBO and I wont pay packaged stuff when the tech is there to not only let me pick the channels that I want, but also how to setup volumes on tracks. So for instance if I don't want to hear the SFX, zero volume. If I don't want to hear the annoying music... zero volume. If I do want to hear the dialog, as if hollywood types are capable of that anymore, that I'll leave up. There's no excuse not to use the tech that's available, and there could be foreign language soundtracks and or subtitles... this stuff is easy... Hollywood is 50 years behind the tech and expecting us to pay $20 to sit in a smelly theatre to watch BS and 30 minutes of commercials.

UNACCEPTABLE!
Get with your itimes, since you love this istuff so much, get with it.