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RE: ESPN Motto: Defend cable at all costs.
Fair enough!
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RE: ESPN Motto: Defend cable at all costs.
(03-31-2017 01:40 PM)MplsBison Wrote: Yeah I didn't really get on board with HBO shows until Game of Thrones. Then I realized the wealth, and it just keeps coming.
The Wire is another great one, a bit older (mid 2000's), if you haven't seen that one.
Billions is awesome. I love Damian Lewis though. Haven't watched a single Homeland past season 3. Saw the first episode of Ray Donovan and liked it a lot as well, just haven't got around to starting it up.
Billions IS awesome. Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti are fantastic. And the writing is just spot on. I think this is one of the best shows going.
I gave Homeland this season to save itself before I gave up on it, and the last 2-3 episodes have really taken off. So it has kept me in. But I understand why you dumped it.
Westworld was pretty compelling too.
I have a bunch of shows I need to binge watch ... Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Entourage, The Wire, House of Cards ... and I am sure I am missing some.
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MplsBison
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RE: ESPN Motto: Defend cable at all costs.
Yep, Lewis vs Giamatti is classic.
The Night Of, was another HBO series that came out of no where. Watched all those. I think it replaced True Detective, which I even liked the second season. Too bad they cancelled it.
Have never seen Breaking Bad, Sopranos, or Entourage either. Particularly the last one, don't think is up my alley.
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RE: ESPN Motto: Defend cable at all costs.
(03-31-2017 03:48 PM)MplsBison Wrote: Yep, Lewis vs Giamatti is classic.
The Night Of, was another HBO series that came out of no where. Watched all those. I think it replaced True Detective, which I even liked the second season. Too bad they cancelled it.
Have never seen Breaking Bad, Sopranos, or Entourage either. Particularly the last one, don't think is up my alley.
Breaking Bad and Sopranos are my two favorites of all time. Entourage was mediocre...Billions is cheesy, but very entertaining. How poor people think rich people live.
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RE: ESPN Motto: Defend cable at all costs.
(03-31-2017 03:48 PM)MplsBison Wrote: Yep, Lewis vs Giamatti is classic.
The Night Of, was another HBO series that came out of no where. Watched all those. I think it replaced True Detective, which I even liked the second season. Too bad they cancelled it.
Have never seen Breaking Bad, Sopranos, or Entourage either. Particularly the last one, don't think is up my alley.
I really enjoyed Entourage. I basically binge watched it. You should watch a few just so you get to see a few scenes with his agent. That was the best part of the show for me. Its mostly played for laughs, but I enjoyed the plot lines revolving around the behind the scenes politics resulting in getting scripts green lighted and actors cast in certain roles. I thought is was a fun show and an easy watch.
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RE: ESPN Motto: Defend cable at all costs.
(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.
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