"Family Tiering" is relatively easy to accomplish with today's cable plants. Put all the family programming on the analog tier, and move everything else to a digital or scrambled analog tier that requires an addressable box. True a la carte requires addressable receivers, either analog or digital. I don't know of any MSO that relies 100% on STBs for every subscriber, so the only industry that is in a position to offer true a la carte is the DBS industry. Good luck in getting Dish or DirecTV in offering true a la carte. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "OpenDTV" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxx> > PTC, CWA: Family Tier Is Insufficient ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.