[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?
Michael Jones
mythlist at michaelandholly.com
Wed Jun 20 15:29:15 UTC 2007
Jay..
You're a cynic ;-)
but then again, so am I.. which is why I recognized that fact so
quickly..
On Jun 20, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:54:29AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:28 -0400, ryan patterson wrote:
>>> $60/year for a few hundred kilobytes of text files? That would
>>> be way
>>> over priced.
>>
>> Do you subscribe to callerid, three way calling, voice mail ...
>> from your
>> local phone company? I mean these services cost the company
>> pennies a year
>> per customer but they charge $5 to $10 per month per service.
>
> They actually have no marginal cost to the carrier at all these days.
> There is no commercially available local exchange switch for which the
> hardware and software for these services is not preprovisioned.
>
> Well, except maybe voicemail. But the uptake on all of them is such
> that they're going to be installed on every switch you see.
>
> These days, amusingly, it requires extra-cost hardware *to process
> pulse dialling*. Or so I've been told. :-)
>
> Here's a different question: if there are Things Going On In The
> Background, why did Zap2It cut those notional people's legs out from
> underthem by preannouncing? Just to see if the size of the firestorm
> was big enough?
>
> Or am I a cynic?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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