Cable TV A La Carte?

Anonymous Coward writes "According to this BusinessWeek article you can now get your MTV a la carte. I having been waiting for years to buy my cable by the channel, and this article indicates that my cable company is now legally required to let me. I am going to call Time Warner tomorrow with my list just to see what they say. Anyone out there doing this now?"

Comments

Re:No, you can't get MTV a la cart, read it again.

[theWrkncacnter]

Damn, that sucks, maybe I should actually read this stuff.

Don't be sad...

[The J Kid]

..they have always a stick behind the door to still screw some of your hard earnd dosh (tm) out of you!

Yes, that right! Just read this:
"It's up to our clients [the cable operators] to decide how they offer our services,"

Translation: we got a stick behind the door.

"It's our hope that our affiliates would use whatever tactics are available to increase their premium penetration."

Translation: We're gonna screw you with it!

You're not married are you?

[jocknerd]

My wife would divorce me if I were to cancel Lifetime.

Re:You're not married are you?

[grub]

My wife would divorce me if I were to cancel Lifetime.

I'm recently divorced and can honestly say the best part is never having to sit through another Trading Spaces marathon! :)

Re:You're not married are you?

[baldass_newbie]

I put the parental block on HGTV, Lifetime and TLC after she started watching this crap and had me paint the whole fscking house.
I set the password to '1234'. She'll never figure it out...

Re:You're not married are you?

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

Correction:

You said Only a drugged up lesbian designer would think Gluing hay on a wall was a good idea

What you should have said was Only a drugged up lesbian designer who has no children would think Gluing hay on a wall was a good idea

Re:You're not married are you?

[ncc74656]

I put the parental block on HGTV, Lifetime and TLC after she started watching this crap and had me paint the whole fscking house.
I set the password to '1234'. She'll never figure it out...

Just hope that isn't the combination on her luggage...

Re:You're not married are you?

[mr_gerbik]

What you should have said was Only a drugged up lesbian designer who has no children would think Gluing hay on a wall was a good idea

No way.. paint chips & hay are a great afterschool snack! ;)

Re:You're not married are you?

[danger42]

I'm recently divorced and can honestly say the best part is never having to sit through another Trading Spaces marathon!

Is that because you no longer have a wife or no longer have a T.V.?

Sweet

[grub]

Goodbye Showcase, CNN, Discovery, TLC, Sci-Fi.. hello pr0n!

Viewers Choice?

[First_In_Hell]

I don't know what is sadder, the rapings by the cable companies or that someone actually would order Showtime to watch The Chris Isaac Show.

Re:woohoo!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, to hell with programming featuring black folks or women!

Just what we need, a thread where all the Slashdotters post lists of their favorite TV channels. Don't you people go out?

Re:woohoo!

[grub]

Just what we need, a thread where all the Slashdotters post lists of their favorite TV channels. Don't you people go out?

I can't, my parents lock the basement door.

I block all of the channels I don't want...

[Anonymous Coward]

I get a premium cable package, analog unfortunately, and I get a TON of channels that I don't watch. To cope with this I actually used my tv's vchip for something useful. I blocked MTV, BET, Oxygen, Lifetime, the NASA channel, and a slew of others. If you flick the channels on my tv you only have 31 channels of goodness :).

Re:Price limits?

[RobotRunAmok]

True SlashDot geeks are watching the Discovery network channels, National Geographic, and the History channel any chance they can get.

Thanks for reminding us, Dexter. Sometimes I forget what I am supposed to watch or do so that my membership in the True SlashDot Geek Club won't lapse or be revoked. I'd hate to have to turn in my decoder ring.

All my free-thinking and living-my-own-life crap sometimes plays havok with the whole /.-Hive-Mind, but I'm working on it, really I am. Still, It's real swell to know you're here and have the time to set me and all the other strays back on the path of True Geek Righteousness.

Thanks again, bro!

Shania Twain Chanel

[RatBastard]

I want the Shania Twain chanel. Muted, of course.

What Time Warner will say

[sulli]

"Your call is important to us, please hold"

Lifetime only package

[sprintkayak]

I bought cable internet without cable television but decided to try it anyway to see if it had been left unblocked. The ONLY chanel I get is Lifetime. It must be a cruel joke.

These things get bundled for a reason.

[Martin S.]

These things get bundled for a reason.

As a welfare programme for arts graduates ?

Great News!

[Hott of the World]

If this thing pans out, I can cut my cable subscription from 500+ channels to 50! Think of the savings! Awesome! I could finally afford a TV to watch it on! Right Now Im just listening through my stereo, and let me tell you, Leslie Neilson should not be on the air...