> Mr. Martin - Sit down and get to know your V-chip, you moron.
Trouble is, for most viewers, all channels are channel
"3" at the input to the actual TV (where the V-chip is).
However, many set-top boxes have equivalent capability.
We recently fired Dish, and told them
"call us back when you get a'la carte".
The problem here wasn't young family member stumbling
into porn, but the bill-payer (me) objecting to paying
for crap we never watch, including Legacy Media "news"
channels, many seriously slimy leftist propaganda channels
(but also all the sports, and most of the tunes).
The cable and DBS ops can make these pols go away by
offering a'la carte. If they do it cleverly, they can
even make MORE money in the post-alc epoch.
So what do they have against alc?
Set-top boxes needing to be swapped out?
Can't force-feed us lib jive channels anymore?
Amen. I'm looking forward to the day I can dump CNN and all the Spanish channels our cable company keeps adding. Thanks to cable, illegals will never have to learn English.
Ala carte is only going to benefit me if it lowers my bill. If the breaking up of tiers means that I'm going to wind up paying more for less, then it's a no go for me. Unfortunately, breaking up of teirs could easily mean just taht, higher prices per channel.