I just finished reading a long discussion of the move in congress to force cable networks to offer A La Carte cable.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Mar25.html
The discussion had views that many of the channels that you or I enjoy would die off due to lack of viewers. This view point is often shown in that the network owners use one popular channel like ESPN to support several less popular nitch channels like HGTV. The opposing view is that the death of the little channels is free market in operation.
Solutions offered were to set a number of channels per package and let you chose, but with the money going to all the networks. Or to set the price of the various networks by demand (both high price for high demand and low price for high demand were proposed).
Then there is the problem of getting this into the real world. There would have to be some changes to the hardware and infrastructure of the cable industry. This is a given in this situation, but how much change and how costly? Ideas to phase this in with the next cable upgrade, or to just use it for those already digital areas were brought up. But... Did you know (I did not) that in a digital cable area that the first 100 channels are still analog? And are therefore not able to be filtered the way the over 100 channels are.
My opionion later, after more reading...
What I am trying to do is to open up this disscussion here, in technoland.
(I am not posting a link to the discussion due to other content on the site).
HUH?!?!
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