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The Problem With Cable Is Television
Saul Hansell writes in the NY Times about how various services offered by cable companies affect their spending and their revenue. As it turns out, a lot of the cost increases and investment needs are coming from television and video services rather than internet connectivity. The scramble for high-def and rising licensing fees for programming seem to be the biggest headaches for Comcast and Time Warner right now. Quoting:
"By all accounts, Web video is not currently having any effect on the businesses of the cable companies. Market share is moving among cable, satellite and telephone companies, but the overall number of people subscribing to some sort of pay TV service is rising. (The government's switch to digital over-the-air broadcasts is providing a small stimulus to cable companies.) However, if you remember, it took several years before music labels started to feel any pain from downloads. As the sour economy and the Web start putting more pressure on the cable companies, they may be forced to consider breaking up the big bundles of channels they now insist that consumers buy and instead offer individual channels or smaller groups of channels on an à la carte basis."
I think those "Dual Action Cleanse" guys have some unresolved psychological issues.
Brett
I'm partial to the nymphomercials myself.
Gotta love spice.
Why should I pay cable companies for a badly compressed copy when I can get it over the air with that $40 antenna I bought 15 years ago?
It't not like there's all that much worth watching on TV anyway - my dogs watch more TV in a day than I do in a month.
However, if you remember, it took several years before music labels realised they had the perfect scapegoat on which to blame a failing business model that relied too heavily on back catalogue material as a prime revenue stream, and an extremely low level of quality regarding contemporary content.
Fixed that for ya!
They make great video remixes from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA
-Check out Steve Porter's version ;D
Yeah! Fkin thieves! My landlord tried the same thing! He had the balls to come up to my door, in my apartment, and demand that I pay him (get this) "rent", which is newspeak for legally-sanctioned thievery! He then evicted me, which is completely 100% the same as someone stealing my own house at gun-point.
Uh, and, since I don't have anywhere to live, my car has been "repossessed", and my bank accounts have been "frozen", I kinda wish there was some way that I could get some support, y'know? I tried begging at my favourite businesses, but they didn't like me as much as they did, for some reason. If only there was a way to get a little bit of money, so I could start earning, and being an asshole again...
Oh well, a man can dream.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed a poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed. Then one day he was watchin some TV had an idea so he could move to Beverly. Hills that is. Residuals, SyFy made in Hungaria
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.