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Originally Posted by polak
What?
So you want access to everything but you dont want to pay regular cable prices?
I'm sure everyone here would love to pay $20 for all the latest tv on hulu but why would that be cheaper then regular cable?
The reason hulu is cheaper then cable is because they don't have every latest tv show.
The ideal service would be something like a guide that you would scroll through and then pick exactly what you want to watch and "buy it" for $1 or whatever. But that would never work economically and you'd start to lose every "niche" thing on tv.
TV would be nothing but Reality TV, Big Bang Theory and Two and A Half Men clones on repeat and I'm sorry, that would be far too much laughtrack crap for me to take.
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You do realize that Netflix costs $10 per month. Rdio costs $10/month. If price points are met accordingly, people will sign up. Even for $30/month, people will probably sign up.
The point is that if someone offered a service where someone could watch all the latest TV episodes the day after they aired for a monthly fee, piracy would drop drastically.
Such a service is not available, so people pirate the shows if they miss them.