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Originally Posted by cincibuck
I don't know if you're old enough to remember the commercials for Roi Tan cigars. They opened with a guy sitting in a luxury sports car, Ivy League cap, Harris tweed sport coat, ascot, driving gloves... any way the point was that he was saving money by smoking Roi Tans and the quote was, "How do you think a man like me got to be a man like me?" Inferring that by taking care of the nickles and dimes, the dollars were all falling the right way... for him.
From the little I know about Murdoch, he's a mean, shrewd, tough as nails sonuvabitch who could give a [censored] if you ever see an Ohio State football game until he's milked it for all the money he can. The whole industry has really heated up over telephones/cable/internet rights and getting customers on contracts and you have about six major players vying for a [censored] pot full of money and the right to put their hand in your pocket once a month for the rest of your life. BTN isn't even a pebble in Murdoch's shoe even though it sounds like amputation to you and other Big Ten fans.
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Yeah, I get that. And frankly, considering that I JUST MADE the switch from DirecTV to Comcast with full knowledge that I wouldn't get BTN, I'm obviously not feeling the "amputation" that some are.
You're comments are really what I was driving at. There are some here that seem to indicate that Comcast and TW are the villians here. My opinion is that there are no villians and no heroes. We have a new situation created by this new network and Comcast is fighting their fight and BTN is fighting it's fight. The only real positive thing I can say about BTN is that at least they are committed to HDTV. For that, I applaud them. Beyond that, considering that the network is in it's infancy, their pricing structure is immodest - to put it politely.