No, I wouldn't pay $30 a month for TV. But I might pay a-la-carte for certain channels or shows, if it was cheap enough.<p>To me, the "fixed cost for a fixed set of channels you might not like" model is the first thing the internet should destroy about TV.
As other articles have pointed out, this is interesting timing with Hulu's recent announcement of possibly charging for content (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897853" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897853</a>).