03-09-2010, 11:31 AM
Vanraw Wrote:Grieve, your main flaw is thinking that the cable business priority is to have you pay them less money. There is no business motivation or competitive pressures to for them to lower revenue.Lower revenue, no.
Lower prices, YES.
If they offer per-channel service in the next 5 years, I will probably end up paying $5 per channel for 5 channels or so. I pay less than now, the cable company gets less money than now.
If they don't offer per-channel service in the next 5 years, I'd say there's a 95% chance I will cancel my cable TV entirely. I pay nothing, they get nothing.
I'm sure there are people out there now who don't have cable because it's too expensive, but would pay $5 for SyFy and $5 for Cartoon Network or whatever.
The real losers will be the channels nobody watches. They'll die. Good riddance. Maybe they can start a blog instead.