(09-05-2019 10:34 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote: At least now all ACC fans living with Comcast know that they won't be getting the ACCN for at least 2 years. Lots of good cord-cutting options, though.
Yep. I think that is where it stands now. Overall, the ACCN has great coverage now, with the exception of Xfinity and U-Verse.
As for U-Verse, AT&T seems to be in the middle of big changes to all of their offerings, so I don't see an ACCN deal happening with everything in flux. It seems like DIRECTV may be their only platform where the ACCN resides for a while.
For Xfinity, it sounds like Comcast has made their decision. So, if you are a Comcast customer, you can either sit patiently while you wait on their contract for the Disney and ESPN networks to expire, or maybe for the contract for the FX and Nat Geo networks to expire, and you can either watch live games from a bar/restaurant, or from a friend or relative's house, or you can go through free-trial periods of the various streaming options. That will probably get you through most of the live football games for your favorite team. However, if you also like watching live basketball, baseball, soccer, etc., then you're eventually going to either run out of free-trials or get sick of having to go somewhere else to watch the games. So, at that point, it probably makes sense to ditch Xfinity and move to a satellite carrier or streaming service.
If enough Comcast customers start leaving Xfinity and switching to a satellite carrier or streaming service, then maybe they'll change their mind, and then you can switch back to them once they have the ACCN. It seems like that is what it is going to take for this to happen any sooner than waiting for contracts to expire.