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If they keep increasing the price every time they add more channels pretty soon it’ll end up being the same as the old cable subscriptions. What happened to a-l

• tclancy 6y ago
  It’s disappointing. I’m guessing the problem is they are one of the few players with any financial muscle so the status quo is going all out to make them look bad. None of which explains how I went from grandfathered in at $35 to this is a year or so.
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > If they keep increasing the price every time they add more channels pretty soon it’ll end up being the same as the old cable subscriptions. It's already ahead of many cable plans. > What happened to a-la-carte channels? Most of the cost isn't per-available-channel (and having more freedom to pick and choose increases costs), so per channel charges would be much higher than current package charges divided by channels, high enough that even though people like the idea in the abstract, they'd flee from it in concrete form.
  • mohaine 6y ago
    What about base + a-la-carte blocks in the same blocks they have to pay for them? Why has no one offered this yet?