I think it's a great idea. We don't have cable or satellite TV, but we probably would if we could pay for only the channels we want.
I think it's a great idea, too. Why pay for what you don't want?
> I think it's a great idea. We don't have cable or satellite TV, but we probably would if we could pay for only the channels we want.
You aren't missing much. People with satellite flaunt their thousands of channels, but if I had it, I'd still be flipping between the ball game and Emeril :)
The cable companies must sense an opportunity here, however. A la carte is prolly going to mean $60 one time charge to hook you up, $30/month for the service, plus $10/channel. If you take several channels, the basic package isn't much more. Pretty soon all this will be available over the Internet if it isn't already.
I have always thought the cable companies could make a killing just lettin you cumtomize your package. I have channels I have NEVER tuned in to.
My bet is that al la cart pricing of Cable channels will be more like buying the components of a car separately. Much higher pricing. This is why probably some cable companies are embracing it.
Locally Comcast offer a "basic cable" where you can get the local channels, shopping channels and a local whether channel plus WGN. It's only $15/month. It's OK in the summer time since I can get the braves baseball game son TBS and the cubs & white sox on WGN. I sometimes downgrade to that in the summer time.
Same here, my wife and I got rid of it because of all the noise and, well, crap. If we could pick out the history channel, sci-fi, fox-news, and maybe one or two others we might just do that..