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

[Ben Kamen]

On 8/24/2010 1:32 PM, Another Sillyname wrote:
>
> Holy Sheet

Yup. My Internet portion of my bill is $45 alone.

> $130 for just cable, that must include some pretty specific local
> sports content or something.

I think it's part of the "Bend over and like it" plan.

> I dropped Sky in the UK when it hit £33 ($50) a month a few years
> back, here however we do have proper national digital tv that is
> required to have 90% national area coverage and IIRC 96% of the
> population so we get about 30 proper channels for free anyway.

We don't get 30 OTA channels here in Central Illinois. More around 1/3rd of that.

  -Ben

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'fortune' says:
Real programmers don't notch their desks for each
completed service request.