[mythtv-users] US Pay-TV loses subscribers for the first time ever

[mike at grounded.net]

I got so upset at getting ropped into a 2 year commitment after being a free and clear customer for 8 years before then that I quit DTV the second they finally admitted they made an error and let me out of the contract. Since then, I've been getting my news from FTA and my fix for channels from a much lower cost subscription to W5 over a FTA dish.

At this time, I am trying to build a PVR to attach to the W5 DSR410 receiver so that I can give users a decent PVR then will start pushing the services to every possible person that we can.

Screw the man, sick of having no choices. 


On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:47:25 -0400, Dan Wilga wrote:
> On 8/23/10 3:37 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Ross Campbell<ross.campbell at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> "SNL Kagan, which tracks trends in the U.S. multichannel market --
>>> cable, telcos, satellite, etc. -- says the market had its "worst
>>> performance on record" in the second quarter of this year. Pay TV
>>> subscribers hit 100.1 million in Q2, down from 100.4 million in Q1."
>>> 
>> Couldn't this have something to do with the number of unemployed
>> people that have realized that pay TV is not a necessity?
>> 
> That, and the fact that lots of people are switching to Internet-only
> (Hulu et al) methods for receiving their entertainment.