[mythtv-users] All clear QAMs gone in Portland, OR

[jedi]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:57:25PM -0500, Joseph Fry wrote:
> >>> Customer A values the channels at $3 and $8, while customer B values
> >>> them at $8 and $3 respectively.  If bundled in a $10 package, both
> >>> customers will buy the bundle and receive services they value above
> >>> the cost of those services.  If unbundled and priced at $5/each, each
> >>> customer will only purchase only one channel, neither of which will be
> >>> profitable and both will fail.  It's lose-lose-lose as the channel
> >>
> >>     Not quite. Many people will buy many different channels. It's a large
> >> market and there's plenty of room for different options. Not every option
> >> may survive but that's just basic capitalism.
> >
> > Clearly, I've failed to make my point.  Looks like a professorship in
> > economics is not in my future.
> >
> 
> In your model, if 50% of a potential customer base values a product at
> $8 and 50% values it at $3... they will charge $8 as going lower than
> that will not gain them any more revenue... to get both consumers they
> would have to go to $3.  So they will cost $8 each.  This hurts the
> consumer as they will no longer have access to the lower valued

    Some things fail in the market. That sucks but that's life in a free society.

    Making it artificially difficult for things to fail just makes it all
that much harder for a genuine alternative to have an opportunity to succeed.