On: Please, keep paying $80 a month for cable so I can enjoy cheap TV

[chollida1]

> The only legal way to stream Game of Thrones or Homeland without a cable subscription is to pay $40 per season on iTunes or amazon. So who's subsidizing who?

Umm, My wife and I watched Homeland on Netflix. That's streaming and we don't have a cable subscription.

What point are you making exactly?

[seanalltogether → chollida1]

What do you mean? Homeland is only available as dvd/blu-ray on netflix? Showtime and HBO lock down all their streaming.

http://dvd.netflix.com/Search?v1=homeland&ac_abs_posn=-1&fcl...

[dcope → seanalltogether]

Certain shows from Showtime are streaming. For example, Netflix has all of 'Weeds' available for streaming.

[chollida1 → seanalltogether]

See netflix.ca

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/09/american-netflix-can...

[gvb → chollida1]

That means you are paying $8/month, or $96/year, for Netflix.

[moistgorilla → gvb]

as opposed to 80 dollars a month for cable. What point are you trying to make?