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But people still buy televisions that are near useless without a cable or satellite subscription


You know, somebody please tell me what happened to us, as consumers. When did it become OK for us to pay a subscription fee to watch television with commercials in it?

I remember it was around the time HBO came out. HBO was like the the "killer app" for cable television. Everyone wanted it. Then cable companies started rebroadcasting your local stations to you on the cable, and everyone thought that it was OK to pay a subscription since they were getting HBO, too.

But now people pay subscriptions just for the basic package. Full of commercials that are supposed to be paying for the shows we're watching.

This paying-twice thing really sucks.

And for those of us with DirecTV subscriptions, there's that other thing, the five-dollar fee to have your local stations rebroadcast to you. So you're paying three times: Once by having commercials, once for your basic DirecTV subscription, and once for the local-station fee.

That's really awful. How did it come to this?
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Tony Fabris