{"id":10647,"date":"2007-02-06T02:44:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T23:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/06\/on-subscription-television\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T02:44:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T23:44:41","slug":"on-subscription-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/06\/on-subscription-television\/","title":{"rendered":"On Subscription Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">Slashdot<\/a> is running <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/07\/01\/27\/1820252.shtml\">An Essay On Subscription Television<\/a>.  Consider the question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who would pay $1.99 to download a television episode that only costs about $0.0014 to see on cable?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just for the sake of answering it, here is my list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Somebody, who is outside of reach of cable (international customers)<\/li>\n<li>Somebody, who doesn&#8217;t want to see any commercials (not all cable is ad-free)<\/li>\n<li>Somebody, who needs to test credit card operations, or network configuration<\/li>\n<li>Somebody, who would want to watch the episode over and over again.  On his mobile phone.<\/li>\n<li>Somebody, who blogged about the episode, linked to it, and wants to see if the link is fully functional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, well&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Slashdot is running An Essay On Subscription Television. Consider the question: Who would pay $1.99 to download a television episode that only costs about $0.0014 to see on cable? Just for the sake of answering it, here is my list: Somebody, who is outside of reach of cable (international customers) Somebody, who doesn&#8217;t want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/06\/on-subscription-television\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Subscription Television<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27926,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/02\/somebody-needs-a-haircutfamily\/","url_meta":{"origin":10647,"position":0},"title":"Somebody needs a haircut#family","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 2, 2017","format":"image","excerpt":"Somebody needs a haircut#family","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Instagram&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Instagram","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/photography\/instagram\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504348287.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504348287.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504348287.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504348287.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504348287.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24876,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/24\/somebody-looooves-the-frozen-glass\/","url_meta":{"origin":10647,"position":1},"title":"Somebody LOOOOVES the frozen glass","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 24, 2015","format":"image","excerpt":"Somebody LOOOOVES the frozen glass","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Instagram&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Instagram","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/photography\/instagram\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16880,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/31\/just-watched-homeland-season-2-episode-5-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":10647,"position":2},"title":"Just watched &#8220;Homeland&#8221; season 2 episode 5. \u00a0The &#8230;","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 31, 2012","format":"status","excerpt":"Just watched \"Homeland\" season 2 episode 5. \u00a0The more I watch it, the more I love it. \u00a0One of the best TV series in a long time.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28820,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/28\/gmail-autocomplete\/","url_meta":{"origin":10647,"position":3},"title":"Gmail autocomplete","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"As somebody who spends a lot of time in the text editor, working with code, and on the Linux command line, I see text autocomplete as one of the basic, native functionality.\u00a0 It's almost like copy-paste, selection, and undo. 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