(03-31-2017 10:08 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(03-30-2017 10:23 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(03-30-2017 09:54 PM)Kittonhead Wrote:  I'm a cable subscriber and the trend I'm seeing lately is a big reduction in the premium prices to try to lure customers back in.

Comcast is offering a fully loaded double play with internet for 119.00 with all the channels and every movie channel that exists. Internet only service is 89.00 as part of the package with TV only $20 dollars. Regular pricing is $219, but it only goes up by 20 dollars after the first year.

Where does ESPN then fit into this? Basically nowhere because those seeking a fully loaded double play don't care about ESPN. They are doing it for the movie channels.

HBO has replaced ESPN as the most important channel. You can get your sports plenty of places but HBO has original programming you can't find elsewhere. Commercial free programming too because it subscriber.

ESPN is only on TV by default if you walk into a sports bar or if its a game of particular interest. People are not sitting around with it all day at home with 20 other sports channels available that are interchangeable.

PAC may have to go to 18 next time around to keep itself exciting. This will force more scrambling as money for college sports becomes tighter.

Cable is freaking $200 a month now?!?!? My goodness. I'm so glad I cut the chord. That's sick

I think mine is $230---but that includes internet service and phone service and like 450 channels plus a special sports tier. Mine didn't use to be so high when TV's were "cable ready". You could get a basic cable package on any TV just by connecting the cable directly to the back of the set. So I had a couple of TV's with a cable box that got the full 450 network unscrambled package and the rest of the TV's just had basic cable (around 50-100 stations).

Now, with HD, you have to have a separate cable box for every TV in the house to get anything signal at all. I have TV's scattered all over the house and that really runs up my cable bill.

Anymore HD and the TV looks amazing.

Non-HD and the signal looks like garbage.

That's my fear about going to streaming and getting stuck with a 420p signal.