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Data Compression - On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:01:07 EST, Clark W. Griswold, Jr. wrote: Monty Solomon wrote: The site is a slap back at Cox Communication's site, http:\\makethemplayfair.com, which gives visitors the opportunity to send e-mail to ESPN, Fox Entertainment Group's (NYSE:FOX) competing Fox Sports network and local elected officials to complain about increases in the price of sports programming. Frankly, after reading both web sites, I'm even more on Cox's side on this. Disney (ESPN) seems to think the only cost problem is that Cox would charge $4 for a decoder box if ESPN was on an encrypted or digital tier. They are also playing fast and loose with the numbers. They compare what they charge Cox (a wholesale per subscriber rate) to the retail rate that Cox charges a consumer for a complete package, which has to include capital recovery and operating expenses on top of programming costs. I would love to see a law requiring every channel be made available ala carte. The problem with this is that the cable companies claim (and apparently the US Govt agrees) that packaging channels keeps pricing down by creating a potential audience that will support advertising. If channels were sold 100% ala carte, advertising support would disappear making the entire cost be born by subscribers. Now that sounds OK to me, but would probably be difficult for many people to afford.OK, what about this idea?Pay x dollars per month, receive 50 channels.Pay y dollars per month, receive 100 channels.Pay z dollars per month, receive 150 channels.(and so on)The actual channels you would receive would be up to you (ie: a lacarte), but this pricing model would encourage you to grab piles ofchannels, even channels you don't necessarily watch a lot. Onceyou've parked yourself on the couch and start channel-surfing, youcould wind up watching channels that you might not otherwise havechosen to subscribe to if you were paying by-the-channel, making theadvertisers happy.I'd *LOVE* to have this.That said, Bell Expressvu (the Canadian satellite service to which Isubscribe) has a decent compromise.(Note: I'm about to go on a pro-Expressvu rant -- I have noaffiliation to them other than as a very satisfied customer).You start with "the locals" (all the local channels everywhere inCanada, which is cool for time-shifting purposes), then they offer not1, not 2, not 3, but TWELVE "tiers" of channels. You can buy eachtier for something like $6.95 per month, or you can have any seven for$40.99 per month. They also have discount pricing for nine tiers andtwelve tiers, I think. Then, beyond that, they've got your"specialty" channels (Playboy, Movie Network, and so on) that you payextra for IF you want them.Each of the twelve tiers is WELL THOUGHT OUT, with channels groupedtogether by interest. I was strongly interested in five of them, andmoderately interested in two of them, so I bought the seven-tierpackage and I've been quite happy with it.Now, as for a la carte:The last group of cable/satellite channels that the CRTC authorized(including such channels as "Much Loud", "Stampede", and so on) arereferred to as "diginets", as they are available ONLY via digitaldelivery (cable or satellite) and not over analog cable. Thesechannels are included in the twelve tiers I mentioned, but can also bepicked up on an a la carte basis for $2 per month per channel ($3 ifyou're subscribing to fewer than 7 tiers, I think). So, for example,if I wanted "SEX-TV" but didn't want the rest of the channels in thattier, I can simply not subscribe to that tier and then sign up forthat channel individually. (Let me clarify, though: only the"diginet" channels are available this way. I cannot get CNN unless Isubscribe to the "tier" that it's in.)Cool feature: you can now do all of this on their website, and thechannels you pick are usually available within 5 minutes of yourclicking "submit". :-)The whole thing is very flexible. Not as flexible as perhaps it couldbe, but I'm certainly quite happy with it, particularly in c
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