[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

[Michael Jones]

Jay..

You're a cynic ;-)

but then again, so am I.. which is why I recognized that fact so  
quickly..


On Jun 20, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:54:29AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>>      On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:28 -0400, ryan patterson wrote:
>>> $60/year for a few hundred kilobytes of text files?  That would  
>>> be way
>>> over priced.
>>
>>    Do you subscribe to callerid, three way calling, voice mail ...  
>> from your
>>    local phone company? I mean these services cost the company  
>> pennies a year
>>    per customer but they charge $5 to $10 per month per service.
>
> They actually have no marginal cost to the carrier at all these days.
> There is no commercially available local exchange switch for which the
> hardware and software for these services is not preprovisioned.
>
> Well, except maybe voicemail.  But the uptake on all of them is such
> that they're going to be installed on every switch you see.
>
> These days, amusingly, it requires extra-cost hardware *to process
> pulse dialling*.  Or so I've been told.  :-)
>
> Here's a different question: if there are Things Going On In The
> Background, why did Zap2It cut those notional people's legs out from
> underthem by preannouncing?  Just to see if the size of the firestorm
> was big enough?
>
> Or am I a cynic?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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