Daring Fireball: Pay Walls

Re:Daring Fireball: Pay Walls by zach on Saturday July 25, 2009 @12:25AM (#722973)

Since cable was mentioned, it got me thinking. Is there no service in the US that will provide you cable TV channels over the internet? ...Okay, after searching, there seems to be backspace.tv which is sketchy as anything. Anyone heard of this? Does this happen in other countries?

A custom-picked lineup for $20-$30 a month over Boxee or a Slingbox or a Roku/Netflix box, etc. would compare well to $50-$60 plus endless taxes for channels you never watch and a clunky set-top box. Maybe you could start with sports or foreign channels to avoid vertical collusion problems from channel providers.

Okay, but maybe we should wait until Verizon rolls out fiber optic to more of the USA before cutting them off at the knees like that. They are depending on everyone to buy overpriced TV service to pay for all that fiber, after all.

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Re:Daring Fireball: Pay Walls by mcav on Saturday July 25, 2009 @12:40AM (#722984)

I'd love to be able to pick a couple channels (Discovery, History Channel, SciFi[1]) and pay for them as online streams. I have no use for 60+ channels; I only like a few.

[1] "SyFy", I guess now, which just seems strange.

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Re:Daring Fireball: Pay Walls by allenbrunson on Saturday July 25, 2009 @02:59PM (#723545)

This is what Zattoo is supposedly working on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zattoo

They've been trying to expand into the U.S. for at least a year now, but it hasn't happened so far.

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