http://gigaom.com/2011/10/11/the-pay-tv-market-is-still-resisting-disruption/ Sun, 26 May 2013 00:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/10/11/the-pay-tv-market-is-still-resisting-disruption/#comment-665805 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:38:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=418696#comment-665805 I have got to disagree. The disappearance of the middle class is going to keep driving this. I think netflix, amazon, roku are getting too popular not to drive more cord cutting. Most importantly, a lot of additional revenue is collected by the cable companies through their awful set top boxes (seriously no one under 30 is going to ‘browse’ 1000 channels on a cable box). That’s going to disappear. There’s just too many alternatives, even with the DoJ cracking down on illegal sports streaming. And the cable cos just let MS get its foot in the door with the xbox-as-set-top-box. We’ve got motive and we’ve got opportunity, cord cutting is going to happen. All the King’s men couldn’t put this dumb business model together again.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/11/the-pay-tv-market-is-still-resisting-disruption/#comment-665026 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:43:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=418696#comment-665026 I cut my cable cord earlier this year. Have no regrets. Got sick of paying for channels I never watch. Doing mostly online but also have over the air TV antenna to get basic network shows via regular TV stations. I find that I don’t miss much of the programs on mainstream cable. There is enough content online to wet my channel surfing urges.

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