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An Essay On Subscription Television

Posted by kdawson on from the wishes-and-horses dept.

dpu writes "Who would pay $1.99 to download a television episode that only costs about $0.0014 to see on cable? This is a short essay on the current and past state of subscription television, and a hope for the future. It skips a lot of points that the thinkers among us might care about, but it does the math and drives a nail into Big Content's pinky toe."

6 of 306 comments (clear)

  1. Re:PT Barnum by node+3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yikes! That's over 1/2 million PT Barnums born per year!

    I'd have thought the number would be much smaller...

  2. Re:Well, when you put it that way... by Stu22 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thats $1.12 per picture. 20 TVs all running picture in picture can easily get the price up to $44.80.

  3. And for someone who watches 10 hours a month... by patio11 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... its a freaking sweet deal. I pay for the stuff I want to watch (Heroes, 24), and everybody else gets to pay for "We Put Twenty Attention-Starved Coeds On an Island and Drama Happened".

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    Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
  4. DVD/VHS comparison? by jbreckman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I stopped reading when he claimed VHS looked better than DVD.

  5. Re:Well, let's see by PancakeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, if only DVD's didn't come with annoying ads, trailers and "do-not-pirate-shit infomercials" that I can't skip, that'd make what you say true.
    That's the "value-added content"!
  6. Re:when did we start paying for advertising? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow! I didn't know it was that bad in theaters! Good thing I am always 10 minutes late into the theater when seeing a movie.