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Originally Posted by Sregener
What is tech stuff? Ten years ago, you would have spent $2000-3000 to get a computer fast enough to decode the streaming video, $10,000 for the HDTV to watch it on, and your 1.5Mbps Internet connection would have run somewhere around $300/month and would only be available from the phone company.
Hardware is cheaper. Connection speeds are faster. If you look at what $10/month would buy you in content a decade ago, I don't think you have much right to complain about what it buys you now.
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On the other hand, I've been renting the same cable company owned modem for almost 10 years. It has matched the bumps in connection speed and I now get north of 25Mbits/s. These increases in speed have usually been accompanied by price hikes, and there have been price hikes because of various other excuses, uh, reasons.
But until 2 years ago, the modem rental was steady at $5/month. Since then, it has nickel and dimed up to $7. This is about to push me into buying one instead of renting. I probably should have done that long ago, but probably would have just kept on renting at $5. So this is going to end up costing them.