Cutting the cable, lets talk options and media setups (9 Viewers)

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sonicboom said:
Snowboarding, Christian, and music videos on YouTube. YouTube is getting crazy with the commercials, but that's the price we pay for not subscribing.

Cable and dish television subscriptions are dinosaur media. When the 5G network is fully functional, that should pretty much put an end to dinosaur technology.

The media progression. Telegraph, radio, cable, satellite, internet, and now wireless internet. Media alternates between air and cable broadcasting.

1844 Morris Code - telegraph cable
1920 Radio - air waves
1948 Cable - coaxial cable
1976 Satellite - air waves
1993 Internet - phone cable
1997? Wireless Internet - air waves
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2021 - Starlink Internet - airwaves....

LAhotsauce said:
PS vue is gone. Now youtube tv has gone from $50/month last March to $65/month now for a similar package.

Gonna need options to cut streaming here pretty soon.
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I was using YoutubeTV and very happy with it until they jacked up the price while adding channels I didn’t care about. I’m back to using OTA for my local channels and pirating NFL games from Hehe.

I’d happily give the NFL $300 for a full season of every NFL game but I’m not subscribing to DirecTV ever again. They’ll be spun off from ATT soon and probably die off shortly afterwards.
 
Depends on if you want to ride that legal gray area or not. there are plenty of IPTV services out there...
 
I'm seriously thinking of other options considering the increase at YouTube.
 
bigdaddysaints said:
Depends on if you want to ride that legal gray area or not. there are plenty of IPTV services out there...
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I’m probably going that route at some point. I’m already doing it for football..
 
Party's over guys. The worst thing is, you can't just call Google and threaten to quit Youtube if they don't lower their rates.
 
I agree, if prices for Youtube, Hulu, etc keep going up, people will start to go back to cable. Its the same cycle Direct TV went through. People left cable to DTV because they were so much cheaper, then after a while, they were same price as cable and people stared going back.
 
bigdaddysaints said:
I agree, if prices for Youtube, Hulu, etc keep going up, people will start to go back to cable. Its the same cycle Direct TV went through. People left cable to DTV because they were so much cheaper, then after a while, they were same price as cable and people stared going back.
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I thought about leaving cable a few years ago, but never really left. Just switched from Verizon to Cox last year. I don't really regret it. Costs a little bit more, but I've never really had to mess with it much.
 
bigdaddysaints said:
I agree, if prices for Youtube, Hulu, etc keep going up, people will start to go back to cable. Its the same cycle Direct TV went through. People left cable to DTV because they were so much cheaper, then after a while, they were same price as cable and people stared going back.
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I keep wavering on just getting rid of live streaming all together. 90% of what I watch live is just background noise. The only reason I keep a service like YouTube TV right now is for live sports and I have some hope that sports leagues will soon figure out that they could make a boat load of money by selling virtual season tickets where you can stream all of a team's games for a season for one "season ticket" price or just purchase individual games. Hopefully this is the next step in the evolution of broadcasting.

The sports channels are what really drive up the price on streaming services. And we are already starting to see the rise is stand alone apps like CBS All Access, the ESPN App, HBO Max, etc.
 

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