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Something that is happening now will go miles towards defining how this whole things progress. There are a few cable companies that are offering service Ala Carte. That is you pay a flat few of a few dollars a month as a service fee then you pay a certian amount each month for each channel you want. So for example if you can decide all you want is CNN, ESPN, MTV, TNT and NBC and those will be the only channels that you get and the only channels that you will have to pay for. I would imagine that a lot of the smaller channels will disappear because they get viewers, but how many viewers will be willing to pay for that channel?
If we find that most people won't pay even a small amount to subscribe to the smaller niche cable channels, then I would safe it's safe to say that much internet based TV will have a hard time exisiting or producing qualtiy programing.
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