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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yep. It's definitely "captive market" pricing I think.
I'm lucky in that in the Denver metro area I can get all three national networks, plus two public TV stations and all the "extra" digital stations associated with each channel. I do miss the History and Science cable channels, but have determined that I will live without them.
Also with my new internet-enabled TV I have access to Vudu, Netflix, Amazon and hopefully Google at some point should I desire. As is I can purchase movies, and videos from Vudu and Amazon with no monthly fee.
Formerly I was paying approx $700/year for basic + local channels.
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Streaming content here is existing, but very rare. And our broadband is a bit on the slow side for it to work good enough to be a real contender.
Basic + local is the €16,95. You'll get 28 Dutch and English channels, a lot of German and French ones (not interested in those
) and all local (as in local = from a certain area in the country, one for each province and a few extra) channels. So, yes, I think that that $700 per year is a bit too expensive!
But they'll be changing everything around somewhere in the second half of this year. The separate HD subscription for instance will disappear and be in the basic package. So will interactive TV. And there will be more HD channels too (including BBC HD!)
(we're generally a bit behind compared to the US in the HD compartment.
Law of the handicap of a head start... Our "normal" quality is a lot better than the US one!)