iTunes To Begin Selling Monthly TV Show Subscriptions
from the this-is-getting-expensive dept
iTunes will begin selling monthly subscriptions to The Daily Show from Comedy Central, for $10 for 16 episodes. The price seems high, but raises some interesting points. If people are willing to shell out that much for a single show from a single network, will they be willing to pay the presumably high prices of a la carte cable? It's hard to condemn the move too much, since these companies, like everybody else, are still feeling their way through this space, but it seems like Comedy Central in particular could come up with a more compelling offering that offers better value, for instance getting people to pay for their Comedy Central TV subscription, and offering them free downloads, or even just offering free downloads of all their shows, supported by advertising.
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Makes sense to me
CC makes a set amount depending on how many people subscribe to their channel through their local provider. They've teamed up with all the cable companies.
Now they have the oppurtunity to move into the mobile/portable realm, which should mean more income for any business.
If all channels started offering their shows for free download, why would I pay my cable bill?
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First Mover Advantage
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Love the idea
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Re: Love the idea
If a DVD costs $15 i want a digital download of equal quality that i can burn to my own DVD for $12, they are just trying to get an increased profit while offering you less value.
I dont really buy music on Itunes because DRM and that i cant put it on different players.
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Pay Per Show instead of per channel?
But will I do this through iTunes? NO. I'd rather buy a SlingBox and a compatable smartphone.
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a la carte cable
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Re: a la carte cable
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I'd pay
Lost, House, NCIS, Top Gear (it's BBC so it won't happen I know) and maybe fraiser reruns.
If I could for a set monthly fee, a la carte my TV shows (maybe download other shows, without cost), when they're released I could download and watch the whole thing, without commercials and DRM I'd be a happy man.
I could ditch the Sat dish and the Tivo and just use a MythTV to watch my programs. Best of all, I think if they made it distributed they could even reduce their bandwidth costs...though I'm sure the telcos would jump on board and start whining about Apple not paying up...but that's another can of worms.
That to me, is where things need to go.
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Daily Show and Colbert Report Already on!
Pretty close to what this release is talking about.
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other shows
What I care about is the stuff the stopped showing years ago that is far better than Mind of Mencia and the Blue Collar Comedy stuff. God, Craig Kilborn's fashion obsessed daily show was more culturally relevent than Mind of Mencia.
I'd easily pay 10$ a month or more to have access to their backlog of Uprights Citizen's Brigade, Dr. Katz, Kids in the Hall, Strangers with Candy, Politically Incorrect (pre ABC era), Exit 57 (colbert and amy sederis's sketch comedy series) and old Daily Shows from 2 or more years ago (what I wouldn't give to see Michael J. Fox's guest spot on one of John's first few shows... when he had been on more shows than John....).
Hell, I'd pay a la carte for all of those, and probably for some of the old shows I never got a chance to see.
Cable's ability to make money from the internet doesn't have a damn thing to do with offering current shows online, it has to do with offering old shows that they don't even air rerun's of anymore.
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yeah boi
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those rymes is tight
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