BlitzenZeus
Burnt Out Cynic
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join:2000-01-13
Beaverton, OR
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Re: Greedy bastards, they don't even provide the a
So if we would leave the tv on all day our bill would get smaller, even if someone was not watching it? I don't think so.... This call came about in the digital cable/sat age, and these damn boxes track just about everything you do. So in the end they don't get the audience for their commercials, boo hoo, we really didn't want to see them anyway, they were already paid for the channels, get over it, and stop counting your piles of money while wishing you could have more.
I don't watch much tv, as a matter of fact I only have the free local broadcast channels at this time, but the few shows I like to watch are better if I don't have wade through the commercials, even my vcr records shows with automatic commercial skip which works 95% of the time so I don't even have to fast forward/resume.
If I really like a show, I actually buy the seasons to watch when I want to, they are like mini movies, and you get many of them for the price of 3 normal dvd movies or less usually.
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Trivista
join:2003-11-11
Longview, TX | reply to nixen
A lot of the content providers require the purchase of groups of channels. Their are not really that many providers offering cable content. |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
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join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
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said by stickfigure  :Is it fair that we charge all viewers for all channels when its really only a couple channels viewers want to watch? Put that in your pipe and smoke it,jackass content providers!!!  Except that the number of channels offered is s function of your cable/satellite service, not of the individual content providers.
Let's face it: the fairest model is usage based. That is, offer X number channels to chose from, but charge based on the number of minutes of programming viewed/recorded.
-tom
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stickfigure
join:2002-06-11
El Cajon, CA
| reply to nixen
Re: Greedy bastards, they don't even provide the ads
"Is it fair that we charge all viewers when it's really only those who skip the ads that are requiring fees to go up?"
Is it fair that we charge all viewers for all channels when its really only a couple channels viewers want to watch? Put that in your pipe and smoke it,jackass content providers!!! |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
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join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
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·Speakeasy
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Said by Program Content Provider: "The fees we charge the cable companies are based on a certain ad revenue cost recovery rate. If the end viewers are skipping commercials, advertisers will be less willing to pay high advertising fees. This means we will need to pass the uncovered costs of providing content along to the end viewers. Is it fair that we charge all viewers when it's really only those who skip the ads that are requiring fees to go up?"
-tom
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