| Landguy said: Why are there adverts on cable or satellite tv? You aren't paying for advert free service, you are paying for access to the service. |
I don't pay for a TV channel, adverts do. A TV channel is not funded by my subscription to Virgin and I don't expect that to be advert free. I pay Virgin for my internet and access to TV features such as Tivo, on demand and the capability to watch TV in HD, as well as the infastructure to maintain this. I didn't pay for the Tivo box though. Virgin's service would be equivilent to MS giving you an Xbox for nothing and you paying a certain amount a month to play online and offline as much as you like as long as you keep paying their subscription.
Modern media is funded by 3 main sources, one off payment (buying the product), subscription or adverts. I would expect 1 most the time, 2 of these at max, MS is using all 3 on Xbox apparently.... but I guess the have to because they can't afford it.
Hmm, pie.
