Every time I mention that Meagen and I live without cable everyone in the room wants to know how well it works because they are ALL thinking of trying it. Every single person at the station I just started at has quizzed me about it because they all want to get away from the cable companies.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Shag <[email protected]> wrote: > Equally interesting... people walking away from the Cable companies is no > longer something they can deny. It's not massive numbers, but it's enough > for them to sit up and take notice. > > > http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/cord-cutting-no-longer-a-urban-myth-pay-tv-operators-drop-316000-subs-in-past-year-1200574763/ > > Shag > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/comcast-developing-anti-piracy-alternative-to-six-strikes-exclusive-1200572790/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: >> trblogposts (Hottest blogosphere items) >> >> >> Interesting. Comcast benefits by reducing traffic from torrents running >> constantly, and the content producers benefit from (hopefully) increased >> sales. I'd happily buy high quality versions of media if it were available- >> but that's a big IF. Game of Thrones isn't put up for sale until the season >> is over. >> Heck, for that matter I'd buy streaming access to a few things if the >> content providers would deviate from their current model. The Apple TV now >> has HBO and ESPN- both I'd gladly pay a subscription for, but both are only >> available if you already have a cable subscription with a participating >> third party, making the app useless. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
