"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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There is no assurance that by paying $39/year the service would remain the
same. Look at what happend to "commercial free cable TV" once enough
people
started paying. Commercials came back.

I don't even remember "commercial free cable TV". When cable first showed
up, mostly it just had public access, and local channels. Home shopping
turned up not long after that (which is basically JUST advertising). A few
channels were commercial free for a brief period (Bravo, for example), but
most cable-only channels that showed up started out with commercials right
off the bat, as I remember it.

You don't always get what you pay for, but you sure pay for what you get.

Ain't that the truth. IMHO, consumers get what they deserve. They exhibit
a willingness to pay good money for crap, so that's what they get for their
good money. This isn't limited to TV by any stretch of the imagination. It
happens in nearly all markets, unfortunately.

Pete