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SunnyD
join:2009-03-20
Madison, AL | All-or-nothing system is broken because they let it be. This is yet another case of wanting your cake and having it too. As much as I agree as a consumer that prices are getting out of hand, as content providers just keep jacking up rates with these "negotiations" and bundles...
Why not just drop them (Viacom, et al)? If you (Cablevision, DirecTV, Mediacom, etc) keep paying them, they will just keep cramming crap down your throats and jacking up the prices.
Oh yeah... because they're the ones that have the content that you require in order to make a business for yourselves in the first place!
So what's going to happen? Well, you're a business too. You're going to fight this case "for the consumer", maybe you'll win too. Yay, your cost of business all of a sudden goes down! The consumers win! Right? Right...?
No, the consumers get the exact same pricing, maybe even a little price hike in the name of recouping the "expenses" of fighting the epic battle in their name, while the profits shift from the coffers of companies like Viacom to the coffers of companies like Cablevision instead.
The long and the short of it is in the end the people that are supposed to be winning here (the consumers) end up with even less than they had before, and probably end up paying more for it. | | |
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| In a monopoly environment yes, but being that Sat competes with cable in pretty much every single market you really have 3 options if not 4 (TelcoTV).
So, they will compete on price of the channels, the uniqueness of bundles they create, and their service in general.
No longer will it be all of them offering all the channels and bundles because they are required to. Thus only making their service the unique thing and provided that you have TV and your bill isnt jacked up, service means little to people until there is a problem. | |
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