Beck might try to create his own cable network, or he might opt for a sort of virtual network consisting of subscription-only online video.
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Male prisoners used to be able to watch Sky Sports News, as opposed to E4, but it was cancelled when it became a subscription-only channel.
So founder Don MacAskill hired his father, Chris, to help set up a subscription-only site with no advertisers, no debt financing and an emphasis on total user control of their photos.
The Old Republic, created at huge cost, launched to considerable fanfare in late 2011, but could not sustain its subscription-only model and, although profitable, is now largely free-to-play, as is the EA-published FunCom MMO The Secret World.
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The most interesting part of the announcement is the news that the app will be free to begin with, with subscription pricing only kicking in after the Times introduces a pay model for its website, sometime in the first quarter of 2011.
Greenberg says at this point, there are no plans to offer Epix as an Internet-only subscription.
Still, a greater percent, 31%, report having a print only subscription and many of them remain loyal to print.
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As a result, some publications say they may choose not to offer an iPad-only subscription, but to bundle access to an iPad app with their own products, so they can use their own billing systems instead.
But if I were to replace my Comcast cable subscription with an Internet-only service, I would then begin to cut into my Comcast Internet data cap.
The alternative will be for publishers to find service providers (such as ourselves) who already have working subscription integration platforms that would only need little or no modification to be compatible with Apple.
The one key problem is customers can only get it with that subscription.
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We will move to a subscription model if that's our only recourse.
NetFlix also does so at a cheaper price than other competitive subscription models and at a price of only a couple rentals from pay-as-you go models.
Subscription-based games aren't the only potential uses here.
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She says that as a small business with only five employees, paying a monthly subscription for software services that are properly upgraded is much more cost-effective than paying for and maintaining a new system.
Major publishers are taking wildly different approaches to resolving the woes surrounding e-book lending at libraries: they're experimenting with both the short-yet-cheap subscription as well as an expensive option to pay only once for perpetual use.
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Beyond growth in streaming-only customers, several other factors contribute to our subscription base estimates.
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The monthly subscription model is more attractive because it forces viewers to make only one decision: what movie to watch.
In late 2010, after almost 10 years of experimentation, Netflix offered a streaming-only option for about half the price of a subscription for DVDs by mail.
The Los Gatos-based company has surpassed 20 million subscribers, making it the second biggest video subscription company in the country (by subscriber count), behind only Comcast.
The mobile app (currently only offered for iPhone and iPad users) runs on a subscription basis.
Since then, the only remnants of a weekly product has been its premium digital subscription.
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Only NetFlix and Amazon offer an all-you-can-eat subscription model for streaming, the rest are individual rentals.
That it was a subscription-based MMO in an age of free-to-play online games only made matters worse, and EA moved the game to a F2P model in 2012.
But you can only buy copies of the songs--anyone who pays a monthly subscription fee, that in theory lets them listen to as much music as they want, can't listen to any of the late Beatle's songs in streaming audio.
The only big loss will be the lost revenue from customers who cancel their entire subscription and leave Netflix, or people who has bigger expensive plans who drop all of it in favor of just a low priced simple plan like streaming-only.
Only Slingbox delivers your entire living room TV experience regardless of where you are without requiring additional subscription fees.
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Our subscription numbers and our local communities really validated our mission and approach, but elements in a movement were realistically only going to get so big.
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Meanwhile, TechCrunch reports that a one-click subscription feature that the iTunes store launched along with The Daily is now being made available to other publishers, only with a catch: Those that want to use it have to agree to let customers choose whether they prefer to pay the publisher directly or go through iTunes.
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