what about internet? as far as i know-the bundled package in many cases will cost you just 5-10-20$ more,than if you subscribe for internet only. it doesn't make any sense to me to pay for my internet FIOS 70-80$ a month,when i can have HDTV with dvr,land line phone and internet for 100-110$,if you negotiate. and every quarter-there is a free premium channel packages like HBO,Cinemax...
That's because the school administrator made us kids push the buses to save on fuel costs to pay for his exorbitant salary and new, plush offices. Every year it was the same route. I was the first one on, last one off. Fortunately, I only had to push the short bus! Pay TV: I don't think that's something I would want for free even. TV is a passive activity that I'm starting to loath. Everything that I do watch, I have recorded to watch at a later time if I feel like it. End up recording over stuff often. Netflix was awesome for like 3 months at the unlimited option. Got tired of that. Went down to 2 per month the last several years. Get a movie in the mail. Set it on the table where it sits for 2 or 3 weeks. Always just barely send the 2nd movie back on time before the next billing period. Still better than driving 25 miles RT to the local vid store.
You are right, they can always find a way to repackage these bundles such that it is easy to say, "hmm, for only another $15, I'll get all this extra stuff!" I think I am paying about $25 bucks (on top of a practically useless land-line phone) for some pretty slow AT&T dsl. I keep the land-line due to some old school notion of having redundancy in case of emergency. At any rate, depending upon how much your internet costs, some of the bundles make sense. They always seem to find a way to get that $100 out of you. Then when the introductory period expires, you either get a shock when you are suddenly paying $30 more per month, or they start nickel and diming you, raising the bill a few dollars every few months, hoping you won't notice. As more people dump cable, maybe these companies will get the hint and try to restructure their offerings. I would probably be willing to pay ala carte by channel or for some much smaller bundles of channels, that actually target things that interest me. The content providers with garbage that nobody wants will then wither and die, as they probably should. Everyone is different, and if you have a family, you probably get your money's worth by spending $100 a month on cable, but for me, the $$ is better spent elsewhere.
Pirate Bay is the subject of a new documentary film. The funding for editing the movie was crowd sourced on Kickstarter (check it out). Pirate Bay film crew asked for $25,000 for the editing. I think they ended up with $51,000!
great idea..with all digital tv it shouldn't be a problem for them..+some free previews of other channels. yeah..i keep land line for same reason. using it for incoming calls only. cost me about 15$ a month
Hulu. You get the prior weeks programing on all shows. Worth it. Flat screen is for Ableton and Movies. Cabel isn't worth it. Stream bloomberg TV all day and night on the Tv via the computer. Resolution isn't the best as my tv is HDTV. But there is a tv coming out that will have better resolution for the Computer data when streamed to it.