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The "recent tweets" widget shows people tweeting numbers like $10. Isn't HBO as an add-on to an existing cable subscription generally significantly more than th
by mortenjorck 14y ago
The "recent tweets" widget shows people tweeting numbers like $10. Isn't HBO as an add-on to an existing cable subscription generally significantly more than that?
- tptacek 14y ago$14/month on AT&T. But in some instances they may be cross-subsidized by basic cable, too.
- melvinmt 14y agoIt costs $14.99/mo to add it to AT&T U-Verse if it isn't included in your package already.
- SigmundA 14y ago$16.99/mo on Fios for HBO in FL if you don't the cable box/ cable card rental free required to access the encrypted channel.
- reustle 14y agoI think you a word.
- Casc 14y agoNot significantly more, at the end of the day I'd have to guess HBO likely sees less than $10/sub.
- sliverstorm 14y agoYea, but plenty of the cut the network takes of that $20 is going to infrastructure- and marketing-type costs that HBO would have to shoulder if they struck out alone.
- Casc 14y agoTheir distribution and infrastructure cost is significantly higher than HBO's would be to support their own content delivery.
- frankydp 14y agocustomers with internet > customers that pay for cable Volume wins?
- leif 14y agoI doubt that inequality amounts to much. Outside of the tech crowd, if you have cable internet, you pretty much have cable TV. Their salespeople are relentless, and most people [in the US] really really really really like TV anyway.
- res0nat0r 14y agoActually it is: customers that pay for cable + HBO > customers with internet only. Hence why they have no current desire to alienate big cable to cater to the small number of users who loudly complain they can't watch HBO online when they want.
- frankydp 14y agoYou are definitively right. But I meant to group the users with internet and cable in with the internet only users.
- swah 14y agoBut I only want ONE show! :)
- masmullin 14y agoSo buy the DVD/Blu-Ray when it comes out.