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karadax

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7. Or charge for how long you watch.

Reply to Politicalboi (Reply #3)

Sun May 11, 2014, 12:45 AM

May 2014

A subscriber gets every channel but you're charged a per hour rate for consumption. You don't lose anything. (pay $90 today for 200 channels vs eventually paying $90 for just the 17 channels you watch. It'll happen. $5 a channel is a good price point for an a la carte menu).

I like the per hour model because it might discourage excessive tv watching.

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US cable subscribers got record average of 189 channels in bundles last year. They watched only 17 [View all] The Straight Story May 2014 OP

I would cut the cable before I would pay avebury May 2014 #1

I spend most of my time switching between ESPN83 and CSPAN - After Dark penultimate May 2014 #2

This sounds like Obamacare Politicalboi May 2014 #3

Or charge for how long you watch. karadax May 2014 #7

That would be a budget-buster for me! HeiressofBickworth May 2014 #11

I hate paying for all the sports bullshit I never watch while having to "up-buy" to get a channel Populist_Prole May 2014 #4

Can't you set up a favorites channel file? pipoman May 2014 #5

No it's in rigidly packaged groups Populist_Prole May 2014 #6

Here they hold you hostage with the DVR tuner. House of Roberts May 2014 #8

It's all those religious channels I always ignore. Archae May 2014 #9

I dumped cable three years ago and hooked up all my Tvs with Rokus with Netflix and Hulu Shoulders of Giants May 2014 #10

"It doesn't matter what you watch; Ron Green May 2014 #12

I will never pay for any cable 'package' with republican fox in it. And I never have. Sunlei May 2014 #13

An old complaint Fumesucker May 2014 #14