Fox rejected Cablevision's latest offer Wednesday afternoon, meaning that over 3 million sports fans in metropolitan New York City and Philadelphia were not able to watch Game 1 of the World Series, featuring the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers.
Cablevision also emailed its subscribers saying it would reimburse any user the $10 it costs for a premium MLB.com subscription. Premium ... [ read the full article ]
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This is why the current media delivery method's days are numbered.
Folks who don't have cable and use the net to watch TV saw a great World Series last night on Justin.TV.
I am still a little surprised that people are still willing to pay for cable...it isn't just the high cost or poor selection of good channels. It is knowing that I am being forced to pay $200 for 400 channels because that is the only way to get all 10 of the channels that I might actually watch once a month. If these networks would just setup live streaming servers (an instant rebroadcast to the net at 1080P), they could get tons of people to pay then $5 or more per month per channel...and it wouldn't cost much since everyone would be using the same data stream. The networks would make about 20x-50x more per customer, and the customer would spend a lot less paying $5 per channel for the channels they want, rather than $0.50 per channel for a block of 400 channels which contain the 10 channels they want.
The best part? BS networks like those that fox is trying to force Cablevision to buy would disappear once people were allowed to choose not to pay for them.
