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Decades ago, when cable TV first came out from Warner(?) in my area, we were promised the vision of monthly payments to view top movies without commercials. Tha
by sureaboutthis 7y ago
Decades ago, when cable TV first came out from Warner(?) in my area, we were promised the vision of monthly payments to view top movies without commercials. That lasted a couple of years, I guess, and then we had to put up with commercials before the movie to howls of complaints. Then commercials afterwards. Then they upped the fees.
Now we've come full circle. Online services made the same promises, then introduced commercials, now up their fees without promising uninterrupted viewing.
- rhino369 7y agoCable never promised that unless you subscribed to HBO/Showtime, etc, which were always expensive. Most of the original cable channels always had commercials.
- sureaboutthis 7y agoNeither HBO nor Showtime existed at the time. And NONE of the original cable channels had commercials because there was only one channel, iirc, and all of the shows came via Warner. It's obvious you are too young to know about these things at the beginning. I'm talking early 1980s when cable was making its big move across the country.