If you're talking about subscriptions to the services themselves, the only one I listed that requires a subscription is FIOS TV and your cable box would be kind of useless as well without that subscription. Most of them don't require a subscription to watch them on the 360 while many of them require special programming packages to access on that cable box. So that's where the beauty of it comes in. Eventually MS hopes you won't need that cable box you brought up.
I don't care about what woulda coulda shoulda happened had different things happened this gen. All that matters to me as it pertains to this thread is Sony lost a ton of marketshare to Nintendo and MS and they lost a ton of money. Cool story about next gen, though its kind of reveals your agendas when you're already calling next gen before the next Xbox has even been revealed.







