[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'114731\' date=\'Mar 30 2006, 12:29 AM\'](Right now I pay the cable company, what, $55 or so a month after all taxes and fees and crap, for by my count 103 channels, whatever they give me On Demand for free (which ain't chicken feed, considering they carry local hockey games the day after), and an assload of music channels. So call that .50 per channel. Less, even. Make no mistake, a la carte pricing is gonna drive your bill UP, not down.)[/quote]
Realizing we're drifting OT here, the problem with that line of reasoning is that it assumes you're going to want anywhere close to that many stations if/when a la carte happens. The theoretical idea behind supporters of a la carte is that people will only choose a small number of channels (popular wisdom says about twenty, plus locals), and even if they pay a couple of bucks each for them, they still come out ahead. The truth is that nobody knows for sure what's going to happen, but it will certainly disrupt the industry something fierce.