[opendtv] Re: :Scrambled channels irk cable viewers
- From: "Gary Hughes" <ghughes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 10:49:17 -0400
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> From: John Willkie [mailto:jmwillkie@xxxxxxx]=20
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> Subject: Spam:[opendtv] Re: Scrambled channels irk cable viewers
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> Price increase or service decrease to make people pay for=20
> what they actually receive? I think this is of the same=20
> order as saying that broadcasting is an economic term.
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> $8.95 a month for basic basic cable is about half the charge=20
> in San Diego for the same service.
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Mass state regulations set the price for the really-really-basic=20
service, and I think say something to the effect that the caco
cannot charge extra for any equipment required to receive that level
of service. At least that is my recollection from my time on various
town cable committees.
The upshot is that most systems in the state have locals in the bottom
20 or so channels, unscrambled. It is certainly the case on the Comcast
that serves my home.
I have no idea what the take rate is for that lowest tier of service,
although if you have a cable modem the bundling incentives make it
effectively free (which I suppose is a price increase from a year or
so back when it worked out about a buck cheaper for HSD+Lifeline than
for HSD alone). Maybe they make it up in volume :-)
gary
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