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Don't overestimate people's preferences either. I'm sure tons of people will gladly sit in front of those channels you described all day every day.

by baddox 11y ago

toomuchtodo 11y ago
When do we reach the tipping point? Seems to be in every industry. Enough people switch to rooftop solar, utilities can't survive. Enough people switch to electric cars, all of the infrastructure around gas vehicles starts to come undone. What's the tipping point for cable tv? At what point is it no longer sustainable for them to operate as they've traditionally done? Interesting times.
- dragonwriter 11y ago
  > What's the tipping point for cable tv? At what point is it no longer sustainable for them to operate as they've traditionally done? Its probably not a big deal, in the end; if people cord cut and eschew TV-style content, it might hurt cable providers. But cord cutters that just increase consumption of higher-speed internet services are just transferring demand from "cable TV" to "high speed internet", and the providers of those services are largely the same anyway. So, demand shifts, and CATV fades away and ISP prices increase, and the same big companies make the same big money and have to maintain fewer distinct service offerings to do it.
- autokad 11y ago
  there are tons of issues with rooftop solar: they still require the grid, its only economically sensible with heavy subsidies and tax rebates (even worse when you consider time valued money), much of the country is unfeasible to run 100% on solar. Hawaii is the most feasible solar place in america, with electricity costing 3x the national average, and yet it has a long way to go and even those solar customers require the utility companies. cable on the other hand, doesn't seem like its that far away. besides infrastructure, one of the reasons why cable is expensive is they have to pay royalties to content providers. lets assume cable went away today, do you really think netflix / hulu would be able to charge the same rate? they are trying to free themselves from the content providers by producing their own original content

Don't overestimate people's preferences either. I'm sure tons of people will gladly sit in front of those channels you described all day every day.

by baddox 11y ago

Don't overestimate people's preferences either. I'm sure tons of people will gladly sit in front of those channels you described all day every day.

toomuchtodo 11y ago

When do we reach the tipping point? Seems to be in every industry. Enough people switch to rooftop solar, utilities can't survive. Enough people switch to electric cars, all of the infrastructure around gas vehicles starts to come undone. What's the tipping point for cable tv? At what point is it no longer sustainable for them to operate as they've traditionally done? Interesting times.

dragonwriter 11y ago
> What's the tipping point for cable tv? At what point is it no longer sustainable for them to operate as they've traditionally done? Its probably not a big deal, in the end; if people cord cut and eschew TV-style content, it might hurt cable providers. But cord cutters that just increase consumption of higher-speed internet services are just transferring demand from "cable TV" to "high speed internet", and the providers of those services are largely the same anyway. So, demand shifts, and CATV fades away and ISP prices increase, and the same big companies make the same big money and have to maintain fewer distinct service offerings to do it.
autokad 11y ago
there are tons of issues with rooftop solar: they still require the grid, its only economically sensible with heavy subsidies and tax rebates (even worse when you consider time valued money), much of the country is unfeasible to run 100% on solar. Hawaii is the most feasible solar place in america, with electricity costing 3x the national average, and yet it has a long way to go and even those solar customers require the utility companies. cable on the other hand, doesn't seem like its that far away. besides infrastructure, one of the reasons why cable is expensive is they have to pay royalties to content providers. lets assume cable went away today, do you really think netflix / hulu would be able to charge the same rate? they are trying to free themselves from the content providers by producing their own original content