[mythtv-users] All clear QAMs gone in Portland, OR

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> Now there is also a "usage" (i.e. consuming content)
> charge.

Not really, no.  This isn't like gas or electricity or anything like
that.  When I turn on the TV, I'm not actually "consuming" anything.
There's not a good that's no longer available for someone else.
That's what makes this different.

There are two charges, but the second charge is not a consumption
change, it's a production charge, and the production charge does not
scale with the number of people receiving the product.  This is where
your analogy breaks down.

By bundling, we forcibly amortize the production charge over more
people.  It's very easy to set up some trivial models of this and show
that we're really better off with bundling than without it.

Eric