I Have Spoken said:
It will be right up to the old cable bill before it is all said and done.
It absolutely will, but the perk of things like this and Youtube TV is I can drop it the day after the national title game and not pick it back up until September. I know some cable companies are starting to not require contracts, but this is still a major perk.I Have Spoken said:
It will be right up to the old cable bill before it is all said and done.
Bo Darville said:I Have Spoken said:
It will be right up to the old cable bill before it is all said and done.
I tried to tell cord cutters this years ago. One way or another you're going to pay for content.
Well - normally to save money, people recognize they have to sacrifice something.Bulldog73 said:
Dang, that's awful. The whole purpose for cutting the cord is to save money.
zooguy96 said:
There will always be something less expensive. Had Sling for 2 years now, and prices have stayed constant. The minute things get too high is the minute I say screw it and just use rabbit ears.
TV is just not important enough for me to spend a ton of $$ on it.
WoMD said:zooguy96 said:
There will always be something less expensive. Had Sling for 2 years now, and prices have stayed constant. The minute things get too high is the minute I say screw it and just use rabbit ears.
TV is just not important enough for me to spend a ton of $$ on it.
Slings offerings are the worst and most limited of all the options, so I would hope it's the cheapest. And don't you have to use rabbit ears to watch locals with sling anyway...?
Bo Darville said:I Have Spoken said:
It will be right up to the old cable bill before it is all said and done.
I tried to tell cord cutters this years ago. One way or another you're going to pay for content.
I tend to think the services that help people cord cut are going to end up with contracts at some point in the future.Champ Bailey said:Bo Darville said:I Have Spoken said:
It will be right up to the old cable bill before it is all said and done.
I tried to tell cord cutters this years ago. One way or another you're going to pay for content.
Except with cable I'm stuck with it year round. Cord cutting I pay for it when I want to use it.
Yeah, its just going to turn into cable with a roku instead of cable with a box, especially once speeds pick up and live streams aren't delayed (my biggest beef with watching football on streaming services).Beat40 said:I tend to think the services that help people cord cut are going to end up with contracts at some point in the future.Champ Bailey said:Bo Darville said:I Have Spoken said:
It will be right up to the old cable bill before it is all said and done.
I tried to tell cord cutters this years ago. One way or another you're going to pay for content.
Except with cable I'm stuck with it year round. Cord cutting I pay for it when I want to use it.
Being able to rely on a constant revenue stream is much better than forecasting when people might drop their service.
DVR killed all of this. It doesn't matter if they go to weekly releases. Live sports are the only content where it actually matters when you watch it. It's just as easy to wait until a season of a series is over (or a couple series) and subscribe for a couple months while you watch it.The Lost said:Yeah, its just going to turn into cable with a roku instead of cable with a box, especially once speeds pick up and live streams aren't delayed (my biggest beef with watching football on streaming services).Beat40 said:I tend to think the services that help people cord cut are going to end up with contracts at some point in the future.Champ Bailey said:Bo Darville said:I Have Spoken said:
It will be right up to the old cable bill before it is all said and done.
I tried to tell cord cutters this years ago. One way or another you're going to pay for content.
Except with cable I'm stuck with it year round. Cord cutting I pay for it when I want to use it.
Being able to rely on a constant revenue stream is much better than forecasting when people might drop their service.
There will never be ala carte channels. Netflix/Apple/Hulu etc will go to weekly releases of one episode instead of dumping all season at once to keep people subscribed/internet hype.
If you like a variety of things, you'll pay about the same, maybe even more when you consider how much you pay for internet too.
There is no winning, just hopefully a little less losing.
Maybe. Everything tends to consolidate at some point. All it take is a bad economic run and the bigger fish will look to buy out the smaller fish. Plenty of historical evidence across multiple industries as support. The question is, what keeps the streaming industry from consolidating in the case of a bad economic run?TMoney2007 said:DVR killed all of this. It doesn't matter if they go to weekly releases. Live sports are the only content where it actually matters when you watch it. It's just as easy to wait until a season of a series is over (or a couple series) and subscribe for a couple months while you watch it.The Lost said:Yeah, its just going to turn into cable with a roku instead of cable with a box, especially once speeds pick up and live streams aren't delayed (my biggest beef with watching football on streaming services).Beat40 said:I tend to think the services that help people cord cut are going to end up with contracts at some point in the future.Champ Bailey said:Bo Darville said:I Have Spoken said:
It will be right up to the old cable bill before it is all said and done.
I tried to tell cord cutters this years ago. One way or another you're going to pay for content.
Except with cable I'm stuck with it year round. Cord cutting I pay for it when I want to use it.
Being able to rely on a constant revenue stream is much better than forecasting when people might drop their service.
There will never be ala carte channels. Netflix/Apple/Hulu etc will go to weekly releases of one episode instead of dumping all season at once to keep people subscribed/internet hype.
If you like a variety of things, you'll pay about the same, maybe even more when you consider how much you pay for internet too.
There is no winning, just hopefully a little less losing.
They may give discounts for yearly subscriptions, but they're not going to go back to requiring contracts because the content distributors don't have monopolies anymore. That's the only reason it worked before. You had no choice if you wanted tv in addition to broadcast. If one starts to require a contract,... they'll become much less popular.
Oversaturation is going to cause the streaming service bubble to burst, its not going to magically cause them to solidify their positions so much that they feel comfortable putting the screws to their customer base. The barriers to entry used to be 100% insurmountable, but now new streaming services can enter the market if they have the capital.
Its different from how it was. That doesn't mean that everything becomes awesome, and we get to have a la carte cable while also having a million different channels to chose from and its super cheap. It does mean that it is very unlikely that things just go back to exactly where they were 10-15 years ago. Technologies and concepts exist that didn't exist back then. Its a bad bet that things will just regress.
I had Sling pretty much just to get Redzone. I've already cancelled, but my billing cycle runs until the 28th. Unfortunately the last day of the NFL regular season was Dec. 29th, so i had to pay for another full month of service just to watch Redzone on the final day of the season...CoolaidWade said:
I wonder what their subscriber numbers are after football season? I plan to cancel one day after the Super Bowl.
Having the same issue but just havne't been sure if it's Hulu or my internet. I have gig so it damn sure shouldn't be my internet.aggie-beta said:
Hulu plus live TV was a disaster at my house. It was hard to use (the guide sucked) and we often would have a grainy picture for several seconds after changing channels and it would often do that or freeze up in the middle of a football game. We had zero issues with the Hulu part it was the live part that sucked.
I switched to Youtube TV over the weekend and it is a million times better. The guide works way better and the dvr is endless (Hulu deletes your stuff after a short period) and I get the nice quality picture right away when I switch channels without any issues so far. It is also $11 less than Hulu after the price hike.
I recently bought an outdoor antenna but it is still in the box because I didn't know the best way to set it up. Now I am going to try hooking it up to what my directv dish was connected to like a poster mentioned on this thread. If that works well, I am going to drop Youtube during the offseason and just use the antenna plus Hulu no ads and my cousin's cable login for espn sports.
