I think if "a la carte" ever came to pass, it would increase our costs and decrease our options. Probably eliminate some of my favorites, such as the Military Channel, so it makes no sense to pick 10 when many of those 10 might no longer be around.
Exactly right!!!
But right now over $ 300.00 leaves this house a month to one satellite provider, local cable, and a bundled internet service provider; and I've never enjoyed content programming
less . (Not for a good twenty-five years.)
Typical example is G4:
At one time, it had several good computer and game oriented programs in its lineup.
Now G4 programming consists almost entirely of cheap reality shows which I just don't watch.
"Attack of the Show" is a good tool for the electronics industry to sell their wares, but that is just about it...
IMF no longer exists, and I stopped watching the "newly reimagined" SYFY last August.
Remaining channels which I rarely watch are beginning to resemble the hood of a Nascar racer... with banners, pop-up ads, and little animated logos all attempting to "find value" for their content providers.
Eventually it seems, I'll be paying a thousand dollars a month for one rarely viewed
science channel with a screen covered in personally targeted pop-ups and banner ads.
I fully realize this is the fault of the
content providers...
Not Dish, Echostar, or cable companies.
But at times I wonder... Might "
ala carte" lead to better programming choices with less advertisment ?
Isn't that how free-market capitalism is supposed to work ?
