IMHO,
- There are millions of people who cannot get appropriate internet service at a fair price, and many of those same people cannot get OTA TV either. The dish, back to the days of BUD, brought those people what others took for granted. They remain a market, and somebody, be it DISH and/or the next buyer of DirecTV (it does change hands a lot) will serve it.
- The technology for "everybody" watching TV on the internet, just is not there yet.
- In my area, and I believe many areas, internet = the cable company. And cable companies are EVIL. It goes out for days at a time. They don't care. That is what cable is, people that provide the lowest possible service.
- From Tiger-Phil (something that 0.3% of the population tried to watch) to 100 other, just read awful announcing to understand the inability of the internet to get it done.
- All of the internet TV math presuposes you are going to buy the internet anyway. Well, a lot of people, millions actually, do not use the internet. So its internet bill plus TV bill, and the math is totally different.