193,000 Americans quit their paid television plans last quarter. Sounds like a lot, and it is! But as any horse-breeder will tell you (I would guess?): it’s about quality, not quantity. And the people leaving pay TV behind, GigaOm reports, aren’t the ones the payt TV companies care about.
There are plenty of people now who think the pay TV companies are nothing but a cabal of greedy arseholes. But you know who hated the cable companies more? Movie theatres and broadcast networks in the 1970s.
Comcast is such a tease. The American cable internet provider set up an 11-mile gigabit network that can download 23 episodes of 30 Rock in less than two minutes. Exciting? You betcha. Coming soon to American homes? Probably not.
HBO Go has officially landed in the US, earlier than expected! As a quick refresher, if you’re an HBO subscriber you’ll be able to watch every episode of every season of The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Rome, that vampire silliness, all on iOS or Android.
The New Yorker has sunk its erudite claws into the mysteries of a Time Warner Cable bill. So just what are those line items you never bother looking at?
How much do you love basketball? Enough to pay your cable bill? Probably Enough to pay $US16 million dollars? Probably not! So you can imagine the surprise of Ohioan Daniel DeVirgilio when he learned TWC tried to do just that.
Officially announced this time last year and promised for Christmas 2010, Telstra has finally launched its BigPond Ultimate Cable offering for select Melbourne suburbs.
