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

[Eric Sharkey]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:26 PM, John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 20:20 -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> Imagine if I could have called them the
> next day and said stop billing me for those channels you just blocked me
> from viewing.

Our numbers are simply not large enough to matter.


> There are also channels you are currently paying for that you probably
> HATE the idea of being forced to pay for.  How much would it be worth to
> know you ain't subsidizing em anymore?

Why stop there?  There are channels I get where I watch only a tiny
fraction of the content on that channel.  Why shouldn't I equally HATE
the idea of buying an entire channel and being forced to subsidize all
these programs I never watch?  Wouldn't it be better to turn the whole
of everything into one giant pay-per-view experience?  That's the only
way I'll only be paying for what I'm actually watching.

Sorry, no, bundling is the right way to go.

I don't watch the golf channel, but when my father-in-law visits, it's
there if he wants it, and I like it that way.  I really don't think
people who push for a la carte have really thought through all of the
implications of the economics of this.

Eric