>Start spending $10 a month or so on HBO You can't spend that $10 marginal price for HBO without spending a bunch more money on stuff you will never watch. For

>Start spending $10 a month or so on HBO You can't spend that $10 marginal price for HBO without spending a bunch more money on stuff you will never watch. For example, even if you never watch sports you're pretty much forced to get a cable package with ESPN included, which is a sizable chunk of your subscription cost. I'd like to see cable companies offer ala carte channel choices, or even better, offer usage-based billing like they do for their data packages. Until that day, many people are going to take the free option instead.