Posted on 08/12/2013 6:47:57 PM PDT by upbeat5
I have Roku and while not perfect it is bit by bit adding new channels that I find interesting and will watch.
Ala Carte is the way of the future on cable and the internet.
I suspect that I will get all of the channels I wish to watch over Roku and pay either next to nothing for them or they will be free.
Comcast has announced that they’ll be adding Al Jazeera and raising my rates to pay for it.
my neighbor cut cable and dish 3 years ago. If he wanted to watch sports, he can get it anywhere on the web for free. If he wanted a specific show, just download using torrent. No biggie and he’s happier saving $100 on a bundle per month.
There are several misnomers about bundled pricing. Sure, it won’t make everyone happy but what cable watchers think is a fair price for the cable channels their family *does* watch, added together comes out more than most people pay for standard cable.
I like mostly news and sports but sports channels a la carte would be very expensive because of all the rights fees they charge to be carried and because I want to see my teams play in the NFL, I would be forced to have CBS, FOX and NBC along with ESPN and NFLN just to catch every game my team plays (there’s Sunday Ticket but the local broadcasts over the air are blacked out on that).
Most people who hate bundling love to complain about the shopping channels and the religious channels. Well, here’s a secret. They not only cost you nothing they subsidize the rates you do pay. Shopping channels and religious channels PAY the cable operator to carry them. Scratch those off and your cost per channel actually goes up, not down.
Sure, some people would love to only pay for the channels they watch but it would not be nearly the bargain you think it might be if you went on the faulty premise that all channels cost the same.
This includes CCTV4 (commie China), Bridges-TV (Muslim Beheader Television), Current/Pivot and others.
50 percent have basic cable the other’s watch regular TV.Basic and Premiums are losing payers because of jobs.I don’t care who wins.
40% of the money paid to cable channels go to sports channels
I assume you realize most all NFL games can be viewed (illegally like in Edward Snowden) on the internet from European wagering sites?
So... no LOGO or BRAVO for you then?
It might not sound like a lot, but there are tens of millions of cable and satellite subscribers out there. 90% of Americans have some kind of pay TV.
We are subsidizing this leftist drivell
I would love to ditch time Warner cable. $145 per month. All I really need is local, Fox News , some financial channels and local channels. How do you cut the cable.
If someone launches a conservative channel, will ROKU carry it?
how many cents per month are they going to give to Al Jazeera?
It's bad enough my tax dollars are siphoned off for PBS and NPR - left wing 'public' media. But insult to injury when I have to re-support them in order to get cable. It's time... for pay per channel...
9() percent is not a real number.Where did you get that from?
Bundles and packages are sold all the time and are generally less expensive than buying a la carte. I never order a la carte at restaurants. So the premise is absurd. However the lead-in is correct. Internet based programming has killed cable. It is less expensive without commercials. Internet based programming is not a la carte. Netflix and Amazon each contain a bundle of all sorts of content wrapped together as a package and included in the monthly fee.
It is not a matter of bundles vs a la carte. The entire content model has changed from cable broadcast + DVR/time shifted to internet packaged content by different service providers, e.g. netflix, amazon, etc.
Too many commercials on basic cable packages and expensive movie channel bundles of low quality trash content, e.g., HBO. People are just finding other ways to get their entertainment besides the old cable broadcast model.
LOL I rarely watch any channel, believe me as I’m busy even during night time especially in my industry here in L.A. I think the only channel my GF watches religiously is the Cooking Channel. The Homo garden, Fago or Bravo whatever you call it, they are not required.
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