Comment on HBO Max is removing features from my plan without reducing my price.

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  No, because the majority of TV channels you got when getting cable weren’t cable exclusive, cable exclusive appeared in 1972 (24 years after the introduction of cable broadcasting) and in 1977 came the first cable exclusive channel with ads.

  People saying “not having ads was the point of cable” are wrong since not having ads on all the cable exclusive channels was a thing for 5 years and only happened after cable already had a good fooothold in the market.

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  • bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You’ve already changed the goal posts. Your initial claim was that most cable networks had ads, and now you’ve walked that entirely back to “well there existed one channel that had ads”

    But also the original comment was they were old enough to remember it

    And if you look at this timeline: computertechreviews.com/a-brief-history-of-cable-…

    It lines up pretty well with their claims of when ads were during the viewing experience.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I didn’t move the goal post, most of the channels you got access to when subscribing to cable were the same channels you had access to without cable and they had ads, a minority of channels, starting in 72 with HBO, didn’t have them but in 77 the trend reversed.

      That’s 5 years without ads on a minority of channels you could watch and people speak like all cable was ad free and like that was the whole point of it. Well, no, the whole point was to get TV to people who didn’t have good reception and these people ignore the 24 years of cable TV that came before 1972 and the 46 years since 1977.

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