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Would you pay $225 a year? That's how much it costs a Briton. ("The annual cost of a colour TV licence is £145.50")
Does "Cable" in the USA have adverts?
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Not significantly more, at the end of the day I'd have to guess HBO likely sees less than $10/sub.
Yea, but plenty of the cut the network takes of that $20 is going to infrastructure- and marketing-type costs that HBO would have to shoulder if they struck out alone.
I certainly understand the motivation for this but HBO is actually in a difficult position. - HBO drives a lot of cable purchase - Some of that money goes to the cable companies for data carriage - The cable companies know HBO sells cable - Any alternative distribution means risks the cable companies losing income - Cable companies losing income means that HBO risks either being dropped from the cable companies or ha…
I will not buy cable tv. Any information service (tv, voice, whatever) is only interesting to me if it's delivered over internet protocol. If a lot more people made this decision, there would be no problem here.
I should have said, "delivered over internet protocol such that I could get the service through my choice of internet provider". Decouplable, in other words.
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True... just like the thumpers vs atheists debate it may be a overreaction to the anti-anti-TV people. I have real relatives who are incredulous when I tell them I don't know anything about American Idol or Snookey or Justin Bieber or the most-annoying current commercial (and don't care to know). A bit infuriating and tempting to brag about not having a head filled with garbage.
There are a few TV shows I record and watch and I don't know anything about Idol, Snookey or Bieber either :)
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customers with internet > customers that pay for cable Volume wins?
Actually it is: customers that pay for cable + HBO > customers with internet only. Hence why they have no current desire to alienate big cable to cater to the small number of users who loudly complain they can't watch HBO online when they want.
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I'm not talking about residential lines. I'm talking about servers.
Right you are! I've had both colo in the US a number of years ago and current colo here in Australia. Couldn't agree more. Do you think that's due to the cost of "shipment" or just greedy men in the middle?