Next what bill? TV bill? Internet bill? Phone bill?
We fund our TV with taxes here in the Nordics, although I haven’t watched any for like 15-20 years almost. (I dp consume a ton of BBC content though, and would happily have my media tax go toward that instead, like a tv-licence essentially.) It would just come out of the wall and I don’t think it required even a phone connection on the property, though I don’t remember ever being in a house which didn’t have a phone connection (even one that was there physically but no bills paid and so not on) so I may be mistaken.
I think if you wanted extra channels, you’d purchase them from the company selling them and they’d unlock them at your address. Otherwise it was just like a jumble or negatives. Used to watch cartoon network on cable as a negative sometimes. We don’t have pay-per-view channels, so I guess just that sort of infrastructure is missing from the TV’s and remotes and the US has had it for a long time. I remember references to pay-per-view since the 90’s but never thought how it’s paid for.
The meme used the term “on demand” so I would presume cable bill, probably specifically Comcast/Xfinity.
“On Demand” is what they call being able to stream a movie or show without it having to air “live” on a normal broadcast. If you buy/rent something on Xfinity, it just gets added to your bill with no security unless you’ve gone out of your way to set parental locks.
Next what bill? TV bill? Internet bill? Phone bill?
We fund our TV with taxes here in the Nordics, although I haven’t watched any for like 15-20 years almost. (I dp consume a ton of BBC content though, and would happily have my media tax go toward that instead, like a tv-licence essentially.) It would just come out of the wall and I don’t think it required even a phone connection on the property, though I don’t remember ever being in a house which didn’t have a phone connection (even one that was there physically but no bills paid and so not on) so I may be mistaken.
I think if you wanted extra channels, you’d purchase them from the company selling them and they’d unlock them at your address. Otherwise it was just like a jumble or negatives. Used to watch cartoon network on cable as a negative sometimes. We don’t have pay-per-view channels, so I guess just that sort of infrastructure is missing from the TV’s and remotes and the US has had it for a long time. I remember references to pay-per-view since the 90’s but never thought how it’s paid for.
The meme used the term “on demand” so I would presume cable bill, probably specifically Comcast/Xfinity.
“On Demand” is what they call being able to stream a movie or show without it having to air “live” on a normal broadcast. If you buy/rent something on Xfinity, it just gets added to your bill with no security unless you’ve gone out of your way to set parental locks.