Would you rather pay $80 to watch Game of Thrones and Homeland, or $80 a month for a year ($960 total) to watch those episodes plus old rerun movies and syndicate shows? I suppose it's a matter of preference but I choose the former :)

> 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?

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...

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

See netflix.ca

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

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

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