Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> The more I look at this, the more it looks like "pharmaceuticals bought
> from Canada are cheaper than ones purchased in America -- and they will be
> *just as long* as only a minority of Americans buy them there.  As soon as
> *everyone* in America is buying their drugs cross-border, the prices will
> go right back up to what they were paying here."
>
> This is what's gonna happen with Comcast, too; if their customers drop
> CATV, then they're going to have to raise their prices -- and the cable
> networks themselves will have *no* way to collect revenue; the cable
> systems being their collection agent network.
>
> This Can't End Well.

Why not?  As people shift from watching broadcast channels to streaming 
content and look to shut off their cable TV service, but keep internet, 
the cable co's are just going to have to raise internet prices to 
compensate.  I can see a future where you buy internet from the cable co 
and they give you the basic cable TV channel lineup at "no charge" but in 
reality, you're paying for the cable internet what you used to pay for 
both cable internet and TV.  The people I see this being a problem for are 
HBO/Showtime/Stars etc. unless they can hop on with the streaming 
providers or make that move themselves.

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