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RE: What TV service do you use at home? Directv? Dish? Other?
(05-15-2017 04:44 PM)panama Wrote:  
(05-15-2017 04:22 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  
(05-15-2017 02:12 PM)Artifice Wrote:  All you cord cutters running "jailbroken" (i.e. Kodi) devices... bad news:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/15/15640...id-devices

I suspect this trend to continue. You can try to stay ahead but they will find a way to get your money.


Five years from now when the numbers increase we will start seeing two or three services buying up all the rest....

happen with cable and it will happen with streaming. Once upon a time cable was fairly cheap. But once the numbers gets to a point and the choices start being bought up...

the streaming cost goes up and it will one day be as costly as cable is today. Only difference, you will have less channels and paying about the same.

These people are not cutting the cord. They are switching which cord they are using and that's it. The same thing happened with cable vs over the air. The same thing happened with internet service. And the same model will be used and in place with in five years for streaming...

fewer choices and price increases and taxes/fees taxes/fees taxes/fees will be added on. The government is going to get their share...city, state, federal. Just a matter of time.

What I don't understand is sports junkies wanting to watch a basketball game streamed vs cable. Those that say you can't tell the difference...are fooling their self. Why buy the best TV you can get with the best picture then watch something that looks like 10 years ago as far as motion goes.
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So you cut the cord? Nope...you switched. I bet you are one of those that says..I can't tell the difference in picture quality? If not you are using a TV that's 5+ years old. But even then you are not being truthful.

At least not when it comes to sports. Since we are on a sports message board I assume that's important to us.

You don't think the price is going up? Again you are fooling yourself. Cable wasn't always this expensive. Just wait till the government starts getting their 15 to 20%. Neither was internet cost. Neither was phone service.

COST always goes up when the numbers get to a certain point

So if you want to address those points we can talk.
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RE: What TV service do you use at home? Directv? Dish? Other?
(05-15-2017 05:03 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  
(05-15-2017 04:44 PM)panama Wrote:  
(05-15-2017 04:22 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  
(05-15-2017 02:12 PM)Artifice Wrote:  All you cord cutters running "jailbroken" (i.e. Kodi) devices... bad news:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/15/15640...id-devices

I suspect this trend to continue. You can try to stay ahead but they will find a way to get your money.


Five years from now when the numbers increase we will start seeing two or three services buying up all the rest....

happen with cable and it will happen with streaming. Once upon a time cable was fairly cheap. But once the numbers gets to a point and the choices start being bought up...

the streaming cost goes up and it will one day be as costly as cable is today. Only difference, you will have less channels and paying about the same.

These people are not cutting the cord. They are switching which cord they are using and that's it. The same thing happened with cable vs over the air. The same thing happened with internet service. And the same model will be used and in place with in five years for streaming...

fewer choices and price increases and taxes/fees taxes/fees taxes/fees will be added on. The government is going to get their share...city, state, federal. Just a matter of time.

What I don't understand is sports junkies wanting to watch a basketball game streamed vs cable. Those that say you can't tell the difference...are fooling their self. Why buy the best TV you can get with the best picture then watch something that looks like 10 years ago as far as motion goes.
Lol

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So you cut the cord? Nope...you switched. I bet you are one of those that says..I can't tell the difference in picture quality? If not you are using a TV that's 5+ years old. But even then you are not being truthful.

At least not when it comes to sports. Since we are on a sports message board I assume that's important to us.

You don't think the price is going up? Again you are fooling yourself. Cable wasn't always this expensive. Just wait till the government starts getting their 15 to 20%. Neither was internet cost. Neither was phone service.

COST always goes up when the numbers get to a certain point

So if you want to address those points we can talk.
You're killing me. I streamed the Super Bowl on a projector onto a wall. 120".

I just spent 3 weeks in Korea and downloaded a VPN free and streamed TV shows on Amazon and ABC TV like nothing.

You think 2 or 3 providers are going to buy up all the content I have? Unlikely since I watch TV content from all over the world. The genie is out of the bottle. The best some of these companies can hope for is to control NFL o r NBA or P5 football. They will never be able to get their arms around all of it. It's way too big.

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RE: What TV service do you use at home? Directv? Dish? Other?
(05-15-2017 05:12 PM)panama Wrote:  
(05-15-2017 05:03 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  
(05-15-2017 04:44 PM)panama Wrote:  
(05-15-2017 04:22 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  
(05-15-2017 02:12 PM)Artifice Wrote:  All you cord cutters running "jailbroken" (i.e. Kodi) devices... bad news:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/15/15640...id-devices

I suspect this trend to continue. You can try to stay ahead but they will find a way to get your money.


Five years from now when the numbers increase we will start seeing two or three services buying up all the rest....

happen with cable and it will happen with streaming. Once upon a time cable was fairly cheap. But once the numbers gets to a point and the choices start being bought up...

the streaming cost goes up and it will one day be as costly as cable is today. Only difference, you will have less channels and paying about the same.

These people are not cutting the cord. They are switching which cord they are using and that's it. The same thing happened with cable vs over the air. The same thing happened with internet service. And the same model will be used and in place with in five years for streaming...

fewer choices and price increases and taxes/fees taxes/fees taxes/fees will be added on. The government is going to get their share...city, state, federal. Just a matter of time.

What I don't understand is sports junkies wanting to watch a basketball game streamed vs cable. Those that say you can't tell the difference...are fooling their self. Why buy the best TV you can get with the best picture then watch something that looks like 10 years ago as far as motion goes.
Lol

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So you cut the cord? Nope...you switched. I bet you are one of those that says..I can't tell the difference in picture quality? If not you are using a TV that's 5+ years old. But even then you are not being truthful.

At least not when it comes to sports. Since we are on a sports message board I assume that's important to us.

You don't think the price is going up? Again you are fooling yourself. Cable wasn't always this expensive. Just wait till the government starts getting their 15 to 20%. Neither was internet cost. Neither was phone service.

COST always goes up when the numbers get to a certain point

So if you want to address those points we can talk.
You're killing me. I streamed the Super Bowl on a projector onto a wall. 120".

I just spent 3 weeks in Korea and downloaded a VPN free and streamed TV shows on Amazon and ABC TV like nothing.

You think 2 or 3 providers are going to buy up all the content I have? Unlikely since I watch TV content from all over the world. The genie is out of the bottle. The best some of these companies can hope for is to control NFL o r NBA or P5 football. They will never be able to get their arms around all of it. It's way too big.

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Again watching TV shows and sports are not the same...stop lying to your self and making believe that football game was as clear or the motion as easy as on a TV showing it through over the air or cable. The quality is not close to the same.

How many internet services were there? How many cable providers were there? How many cell providers were there? How many do we have today? Answer those questions and you will see nothing is ever to big to be bought up.

Like everything else that $40 you pay today (btw wasn't it like $15 or $20 just last year) will be $60, if not more with in the next few years. At a faster pace than cable prices grew.
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RE: What TV service do you use at home? Directv? Dish? Other?
You're killing me. LOL

So what killed ESPN and cable sports in general was that people no longer saw it as essential. Go ahead and raise the price and people will cancel. Remember, we ain't got no contract. There is nothing to keep most of us from fleeing fro m high prices again.

Now as for the quality of streaming sports you're quite delusional. Go to somebody's house who has a projector and Roku and WatchESPN and watch an SEC Saturday night game. Then while your jaw is still on the ground have them switch to the Skycam view. Sorry. I will stick to what I have and keep paying a quarter of what I used to.

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RE: What TV service do you use at home? Directv? Dish? Other?
Those saying that streaming picture quality is terrible must have either:
1.) Slow internet
2.) Insufficient modem/router
3.) The wrong settings on their TV
4.) All of the above

When I switched from cable (TWC) to streaming, I was blown away at how much better the picture is. All of the dot noise around moving objects was gone. All of the interlacing distortion on channels that didn't pay TWC for progressive frame feeds was gone. The motion was smoother and the picture was clearer. No comparison. Is there a rare glitch where the picture gets fuzzy for a few seconds and then catches back up? Yes, but cable had a few glitches (or complete channel dropouts), too.
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If anything my issue is that mkow everyone wants to watch major sporting events at my house

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RE: What TV service do you use at home? Directv? Dish? Other?
I have Brighthouse (I guess now Charter) cable and internet, but it's provided at our complex. Also have Hulu and a shared Netflix account. If I didn't have Brighthouse built in, I probably wouldn't have traditional cable.
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RE: What TV service do you use at home? Directv? Dish? Other?
I have Comcast for internet (only provider in town with any speed), it is cheaper to get internet + locals + hbo than to just get internet, so that is what I have. I use Netflix + a Family member's ESPN info for about everything else.

I used to have DirecTV, but I got tired of fighting them all the time to keep the price reasonable, and once Netflix streaming took off, no one in my household watched live TV often enough to justify it.
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