Americans cut cable TV subscriptions at a hefty clip of 1.8 million (1 Viewer)

[schan1269]

It makes no sense at all to pay 100+ bucks a month just to avoiding renting/buying BRs.

1. The picture on a BR is going to be far superior to a cablecast, and you don't have to worry about HBO morons cropping scope pictures.

2. When you buy/rent BRs, you're paying for the movies YOU want to watch, not what they choose to show you.

3. You'll wind up saving a lot of money and/or amass a large collection of movies.

You must be buying different movies than me.

From Amazon UK, I bought...

Under the Skin(1997 Morton)
Fish Tank (less than the Criterion)
Ages of Lulu
Morvern Caller
Red Road (2006)

Fish Tank and Red Road are the only two Blu. Try Netflix/Vudu for anything but Fish Tank.

You don't want to know what I paid. (Amazon was using a 1.749 exchange)

But, Morvern Caller and Under the Skin used to get regular showings on Starz. Ages of Lulu used to hit Cinemax. Red Road may never get a US showing.

 

[Mike Frezon]

This is an editorial from the LA Times on An FCC Proposal that would mean Cable Customers Would NOT be Required to Rent a Set-Top Cable Box.

 

[David Norman]

A version of a question I've asked over the years in various forms.

Does anyone have a real number (or at least a decent estimate from a reasonably unbiased source) on total PayTV customers (CableCo, Satellite, Uverse, Fios, etc). I would love to see an annual breakdown to total customers over the last 10-15 years.
The best I can find tend to be quarterly changes -- sometimes they just say XX number left, but not how many signed up or changed services -- they don't tend to give Net Numbers of subscribers.

Assuming the 2005-2007 numbers are true -- 90-95M households were on some sort of PayTV service, how many are in 2015. I've heard silly numbers like 30-40-50% have left PayTV to go to alternative services (PayTV is hemorrhaging) and I've seen numbers showing 90+M are still on PayTV (the sky really isn't falling so much).