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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
TV networks are not worth paying for.
100% pay-per-view here. Apple TV in my place and Roku at a friends' place are all I bother watching these days. The way the networks/channels bundle this stuff is just garbage and not worth a red cent to me. I walked away from subscription TV a while ago and haven't missed it one bit.
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This is the future of TV. Set Top Boxes (STB) are going to go away, like POTS phones. With all the kids growing up w/ youtube, hula, et.al, they are growing up realizing that programming dictated by someone else is crap. Watch what you want, when you want. Even on your smart phone.
Hence, AppleTV, GoogleTV, Roku, etc. And notice that all tv's sold today are internet ready, i.e., have a wifi interface.
Want an idea to start a business? Figure out a way to package stuff for the content providers so they can offer programming all by themselves and don't have to rely on these providers to get the content to you. Of course the plumbing is the internet. How to get it to the consumer in a simple, neat way is the key. Steve Jobs died too soon.
Market reports say that DirecTV, cable, UVerse, etc will steadily decline. I tend to agree.