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I prefer having the choice. That's what was bad about cable - you had to buy the bundle for one channel, and they lumped a bunch of other stuff you didn't want in with it.
Have it been so long that people forgot how shitty this was?
You can also choose to pay nothing and sail the high seas to get your favorite shows to watch on whatever device you prefer.
I agree... But work is demanding and I have my family to think about, time wise. I don't have the the time to properly deal with it, and I currently like the "subscribe to what you want" model.
Aaargh matey!
I hated cable/sat TV for this packaging but now with over 15 years since I cut the cord I wonder if they had the technology back then to piece meal out the channels to every single subscriber?
I'm not letting them off the hook for purposely packaging 1 good channel with 5 turd channels and then repeating this with the remaining good channels but I do wonder if there were any technical limits to how the channels were sold?
No
Absolutely not, they bundled because they knew no one would subscribe to certain channels individually. That and a combination of licensing deals. They could just have easily sold each channel a la cart.
The tech behind cable was the same RF signals as OTA, just pumped through a network of coax (and the days it's digital over hybrid fiber coax via DOCSIS). Channels are encrypted at the headend and decrypted by your set top box, which is programmed from the mothership to know which channels you do or don't subscribe to. They could have easily sold each channel on its own, but the media companies who own the content know no one is going to subscribe to the turd channels, so they bundle them with the most popular ones to ensure they'll at least be scrolled through, all so that they can sell the space to advertisers.