[Red Badger]

The cable company has no real competition, so no incentive to lower their prices.

Same with Dish/DirecTV. They aren’t competitors they are partners. There was talk of a merger a while back.

Over-the-air broadcast TV could possibly go Pay to Play with a setup similar to the satellite companies, or an additional circuit added to all new TVs that decodes a key code to allow you to watch. Connect it to the Web and they can meter it just like your electricity bill.....................

[Bernard]

I'd really prefer specific channel selection across the range. We watch maybe 15 different channels often enough to warrant having a subscription, and if we had to pay $X per channel we would probably narrow that down as well.

The "500 channels" idea sounded great, but not in practice.