Re: TV's Top Earners
"nicholas a. evans" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote: > So anyone else considering dropping cable tv programming? My family watches > more Netflix streaming, DVD's, Hulu and Youtube than regular TV. I've never paid for cable TV. Strictly speaking, that's not 100% accurate... the only "decent" broadband internet in Baltimore is Comcast. Comcast internet alone costs $60/month. But they'll give you a $20/month discount if you *also* get a TV package. Their cheapest advertised package is $30/month, but they also have a (government mandated) $15/month "basic" package which is basically only broadcast channels + public access channels + EWTN and CSPAN (and whatever else accidentally slips through the cheap filter that is dangling on the wire on the side of my house). So I get that, and save $5/month on my internet. (I'm not considering promotional rates. And rates might have changed since the last time I paid attention.) For a short while, buying DVDs every week from Best Buy and Amazon were my "cable". Considering how much cable costs per month, I think I was still saving money. But I kicked that bad habit when I signed up for Netflix in 2003. I'm still on the $28/month 4 DVD plan, split into two queues (two for me, two for my wife). And I'm still saving money over cable. Anyway, I don't mind waiting a couple of days for the next disc in my queue, but I have a hatred of my shows getting interrupted by advertisements. I'd rather not watch anything at all. If a commercial is any good, someone will send me the YouTube link. For anything other than sports, I'm amazed the economic model for cable (bundles of channels, which are bundles of shows) hasn't completely collapsed already. I think that Comcast (et al.) know that internet downloads obsoletes their lucrative business model, and *that* is yet another reason why their local monopolies over high speed internet concerns me. Ironically, we are probably going to get a land line soon. Dealing with dropped and missed calls is a pain. I use Google Voice so a single number will ring both my office and cell phones (and eventually also my home phone). -- Nick -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot