By the look of it Dollars seems to be the problem not so much the content. This problem goes back to the early days with "GALAXY", they were in such a hurry to get up and running that they were screwed by the yanks and paid outrageous prices in US dollars for their movie contents. In other words compared to the rest of the world Galaxy was paying far too much. When Foxtel first started operations, when Galaxy and Austar were still around, Foxtel wanted Galaxy's channels, so Foxtel entered into a ridiculous contract with Galaxy where they were able to use Galaxy's channels but for a price and it was hefty. Like around $19.00 US per customer. Convert that to australian dollars, that didn't leave much for Foxtel for their operational costs day to day. Foxtel tried to get out of this contract but it was binding. So, its like a country that owes too much to another country, they can never repay that debt...its in the interest of the country with the debt to declare war on the other country so the debt can be squashed. It has been proven that Foxtel had a massive helping hand of the destabilising of Galaxy which bought on their downfall. Now, how does this all affect today... till today Foxtel are paying too much and get it out of you head, they are in a big catch 22, the prices will never go down because they can't afford it. Prices will only go up which means that fewer and fewer new subscribers will join the pay tv arena. After all, they can't force you to have pay tv...and the economy will preach to that. The only thing I have against pay tv regardless of where it comes from, is depending on how old you fellows are out there, my friends have reminded me that up to 20 years ago on the FTA (Free to air) scene there were plenty of good channels available on different satellites. All you needed was a 3.7 to 4 metre dish, analogue and digital receiver and you could watch HBO, Cinemax, discovery channel, national geographic channel, numerous news channels and the last to disappear was Fox News channel. These channels were either removed or encrypted because they were ordered to by the big wigs of pay tv. If this is the way that they try to force people to get pay tv, they can stick it, dirty tactics can be played on both sides. On a final note, Foxtels prices are too expensive today. For people to consider it, they would have to throw all their plus two hour channels in, plus all their new channels (around 10) for todays prices. In other words, more new channels plus the copy channels and no price increases, but can you see that???? <br /><br />I cannot believe that they don't listen to the people, or is it because they are in such a catch 22??? As far as I'm concerned, either drop your prices as suggested by 90% of the population and experts in this field, or increase your channel loading without an extra cents cost. Which one are you going to do???? A good example would be their so called Gold package (I think thats what they call it), $98.00 for the lot except the adults only and pay per view... you should be able to get the gold package plus all the plus two hour channels, plus all the new channels for the same price of $98.00, and some people might think about it. But if you increase your prices over this, you have to be joking.<br />The elections are coming soon, labor might win and we might end up having a Paul Keating recession that we had to have. Now considering that back in the 80's only around 72% of the population had a loan which averaged about $40,000 and only 40% of the population had a credit card and today 96% of the population has a loan or a credit card and the average loan is between $250,000-300,000, it would not take much of a hiccup and the precious pay tv would be out the window. <br /><br />Phil <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/default/confused.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/default/confused.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/default/confused.gif" />