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Old 02-10-2015, 08:10 AM   #1
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Cord-Cutting (TV Revolution)

What does everyone think about the trend of TV consumption moving away from cable/satellite providers bundling channels to the more segregated streaming options (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.) that provide consumers more choice? Over the last year there have been some huge shifts in how TV consumption is trending. Momentum seems to be swinging in favor of consumers who want to just buy the channels or content they want rather than paying for huge bundles. HBO announced last fall that they would start offering a standalone streaming service for their content starting this year that didn't require a packaged TV bundle for the first time ever. CBS quickly followed with a similar service option (although that seems kind of moot since you can get CBS for free over the air).

Now Dish Network just started offering Sling TV yesterday. For $20 per month, you can stream ESPN, ESPN 2, TNT, TBS, Food Network, and HGTV among a few others. Soon they will also include AMC as part of the package. That service does not require any kind of cable/satellite package. It can be purchased just like Netflix. Sling TV represents the first time that a major live sports channel is available anywhere outside of a bundled cable/satellite package. Live sports has basically been the last major piece that streaming services didn't offer until now.

I cut cable a year ago this month because I was tired of dealing with a huge bundle of channels I didn't want that required a bunch of equipment I was forced to rent for huge monthly costs I didn't want to pay. Now it finally seems like the pieces are falling into place that will soon allow consumers to purchase just the content they want. Such freedom of choice really is a revolution in how television content is delivered to consumers. Networks and content providers, like Netflix with it's original shows, are discovering that consumers are willing to pay for good content and follow them outside the industry-standard channel bundles. Has anyone else cut the cord? What do you think about what's happening in the industry?
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    Re: Cord-Cutting (TV Revolution)

    I started a thread about this in the Tailgate that was specific to cord-cutting and sports. Sports is basically the only thing that has been holding me back. The Sling TV is a great start to addressing that with ESPN and ESPN 2, but for me personally, I would be lost on Saturdays in the fall for college football, as well as missing out on Cardinals baseball and Blues hockey (which air on Fox Sports Midwest in my area) without my cable package, so I'm not there quite yet. I think it's great to see things moving this way though.
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    Yeah, until YES allows streaming on one of the many pieces of streaming hardware that you can buy, or MLB.tv lifts the blackout restriction for regional games, I'm stuck with cable.
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    I'm all for this. Don't forget HBO is offering its Netflix-like service. And Sony will be offering something similar to what Dish is doing through Playstation Network. Cable companies will argue that bundling props up the lesser channels, but if those channels make shitty programming I'm not going to watch anyway, let them wither.

    My stupid question is what do you use for your ISP? You still need the internet to use these things. In Pittsburgh, the only serious ISP's seem to be, naturally, Comcast and Verizon. And they seem to force you to get some sort of TV package, even a very basic one with, with internet service. And I hate that.
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    Haven't had cable for years. It's great.
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    Yea the Sling TV announcement is huge. If that works well, I will be ditching cable.

    Im locked into a year with Uverse right now that ends in October. After that, probably switching to internet only and grabbing Sling.

    Already have Netflix and Amazon Prime. Would highly consider HBO GO standalone too.
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    Yeah, until YES allows streaming on one of the many pieces of streaming hardware that you can buy, or MLB.tv lifts the blackout restriction for regional games, I'm stuck with cable.
    Wait, so if you live in the home market, you can't stream games online through MLB?
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    Wait, so if you live in the home market, you can't stream games online through MLB?
    In my experiences, no, at least not via mobile. I've never tried on a desktop.

    Unless I'm doing something wrong, somebody else who uses the service please keep me honest here...
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    http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/help/faq_blackout.jsp

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    A.Regular Season Local Live Broadcasts in the U.S. and Canada

    1.Regular Season Blackouts Generally:
    All live games streamed on MLB.TV and available through MLB.com At Bat are subject to local, regional or national blackouts as more fully described in the following paragraphs. Except for certain Saturday regular season MLB games as described below or in certain MLB Club home television territories for which MLBAM may offer in-market subscription services, all live games will be blacked out in each applicable Club's home television territory. If a game is blacked out in an area, it is not available for live game viewing.

    In addition, note:

    1.Home television territory blackout restrictions apply regardless of whether a Club is home or away and regardless of whether or not a game is televised in a Club's home television territory.

    2.U.S. Clubs may also be subject to blackout in parts of Canada based on their home television territory as determined by Major League Baseball.

    3.All live San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics games will be blacked out in the U.S. territory of Guam.

    4.If you are an MLB.TV subscriber within an area subject to a regular season blackout, the applicable game will be available as an archived game approximately 90 minutes after the conclusion of the game.

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    Old 02-10-2015, 09:17 AM   #10
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    So it's the saturday fox broadcasts that are blacked out just like they are for extra innings folks?
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    So it's the saturday fox broadcasts that are blacked out just like they are for extra innings folks?
    I think there was something about that in the FAQ, but I glazed over it.

    Just Google MLB.tv Blackout Restrictions, or click the link in my post above, and all the rules are there.

    But basically, yeah, regular season regional games are a no-go for MLB.tv subscribers.
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    That's crazy. Also something I never had to consider seeing as I've lived out of market my entire adult life.
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    That's crazy. Also something I never had to consider seeing as I've lived out of market my entire adult life.
    Agreed...
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    There is an easy way around streaming blackouts. Just download a browser that can use a proxy IP so that the website thinks you live in the Ukraine or wherever the hell it wouldn't be blacked out.
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    I haven't had cable for a year. Roku plus an antenna give me the sports I need.

    As far as MLB tv goes, I had it last year. Me being a Royals fan, I could not watch ANY games due to that stupid blackout rule. Absolutely absurd to not get all regular season games for any team.
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    That was my next question, regarding the proxy.
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    There is an easy way around streaming blackouts. Just download a browser that can use a proxy IP so that the website thinks you live in the Ukraine or wherever the hell it wouldn't be blacked out.

    In my Adam Sandler voice: "Again, information I could have used last year!"

    Thanks actually, Sulla.
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    I'm ditching cable for Sling. Figure an antenna + Sling will save me $1000 a year.


    Sling will only grow & add more channels. Cable priced itself out.
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    Related question, as I want nothing more then to give TWC less of my $ each month...those of you have digital antennas, any specific model you'd recommend? My friend did this and is loving one he got from Best Buy and mounts on the roof, just thought I'd ask here as well.
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    Apparently they are lifting the blackout restrictions on MLB.tv this year but there's a catch to it. From my understanding you have to be a cable subscriber with access to your teams regional broadcast (think WatchESPN or HBOGo). Which seems kind of pointless to me as far as watching games at home. Guess it's mainly for people who are watching at work etc... Seems like they could offer two packages $25/month with blackout restrictions or $35 with no blackout restrictions.
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    Thinking about getting Sling, but I'd need to buy something since there's no PS4 app for it. Any recommendations? Roku maybe? I see it's not on Apple TV yet either.
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    Thinking about getting Sling, but I'd need to buy something since there's no PS4 app for it. Any recommendations? Roku maybe? I see it's not on Apple TV yet either.
    If you have an AppleTv and a mac you could use AirPlay to stream from your mac to tv. Otherwise it looks like Roku will be your best bet.
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    Related question, as I want nothing more then to give TWC less of my $ each month...those of you have digital antennas, any specific model you'd recommend? My friend did this and is loving one he got from Best Buy and mounts on the roof, just thought I'd ask here as well.

    How many channels does he get? My antenna picks up 6 local channels. I have to move mine around but it is well worth saving money.


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    Thinking about getting Sling, but I'd need to buy something since there's no PS4 app for it. Any recommendations? Roku maybe? I see it's not on Apple TV yet either.
    Get a Chromecast for cheap while you wait for the PS4 app. That will happen soon enough I would guess.
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    Yeah dude, seconded... Chromecast is tits.
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    Chromecast is big tits, and totally agree about needing cable for now due to local sports.

    89% of our TV consumption is Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, etc.

    15% is Mets & Islanders.

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    Lots of good discussion.

    Sling TV only works with Roku mostly for TV streaming at the moment along with iOS, Android, PC's, and Macs, but you're restricted to your computer or phone unless you can hook that up to your TV. Amazon Fire TV and Fire Stick will be added soon. I plan on getting Sling TV once Amazon Fire TV is supported since I already have that.

    MLB does block all local games. They are getting closer to working a deal with Fox (which would cover FSN, but not networks like Root Sports) in order to allow people to stream their local market games, but only if they already have a cable subscription. So that doesn't help cord-cutters at all. They won't let cord-cutters stream local market games because the cable networks, like FSN, pay HUGE money to be able to broadcast their games and get them bundled with cable/satellite packages. Maybe someday they will offer their own streaming service. If ESPN ever offers a standalone streaming service, then I'm guessing Fox Sports won't be too far behind.

    I agree with what others said about live sports being the sticking point to not cutting cable. I'm a huge baseball fan and would regularly watch probably 150+ games each season. So cutting cable was a huge deal when we did it a year ago since I wouldn't be able to do that anymore. Last season was the first season that I couldn't watch games on TV. I'll admit that I did miss it. However, what I did was sign up for the MLB At Bat for $3 per month and we would stream the radio broadcasts of all the games to some wireless speakers in the house. Instead of watching the game, we would read books or something while listening to the games in the background. It wasn't as good as watching on TV, but it still worked pretty well. The toughest part was not being able to watch the playoff games. MLB.tv did allow a "playoff packages" for like $10 or something, but that only allowed you to stream the ballpark feeds (static cameras, i.e. no director picking different camera angles depending on the action), not the broadcast feed.

    Has anyone done the proxies for streaming MLB games? I thought about that, but I thought it doesn't work very well for streaming video because to do a proxy you're basically sending your internet signal/connection through servers in other countries. So your signal has to travel a LONG ways, which decreases your speed.

    To get OTA channels, we got a Leaf antenna for like $30 or something (http://www.gomohu.com/). It works 95% of the time I would say. It depends on how close you are to the broadcast antenna. Living near a larger metro area helps a lot. You can certainly get better antennas, but for the price and ease of installation (just hang on the wall with thumbtacks) the thing works surprisingly well. We get 20-some channels, but all I really care about are Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, and maybe PBS. The nice thing is it's all clean digital HD with 5.1 surround sound and it's not compressed as much as cable compresses their signal.

    We have Comcast for our internet. 30Mbps connection costs $65 per month here. We bought our own modem (as everyone should do), so we don't have a rental fee.

    I'm really jealous of this deal that Verizon Fios is offering:

    http://www.verizon.com/home/MLP/Onli...053557&afsrc=1

    50Mbps internet, plus HBO and Showtime, plus local TV channels for $60 per month. In December it was even better because they were offering a year of Netflix in that bundle for the same price I believe. If Fios was available here, I would have signed up.

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    It's funny that you bring this up like this in a new thread, because there's a post I've been meaning to put in the overall TV thread the last couple days, and it's this. That when I happened to look at all the top 10 charts in the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly (Walking Dead on the cover), for the top 10 broadcast shows of the week, first of all a full 8 of the 10 shows were from CBS. Pretty much between the nights of when they've got all their awful Chuck Lorre sitoms, and then all the acronym procedurals. But the #1 show, Scorpion, they pointed out how the total number it achieved as like 13 million viewers, but only like 2.9 million of those were within the coveted 18-49yo demo.


    And it occurred to me, I'm not sure I'd seen a more clear sign before then that it seems like very much for the most part, the only people who bother to watch shows at the time they're actually broadcast anymore is old people. and hell my mom at 72 years old is exactly one of them, she loves all those damn shows
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    Yeah, the trend really is clear that people will watch what they want and when they want. They are no longer tied to buying huge bundles of channels they don't want and tied to watching the shows they like when the networks dictate. People seek out the specific shows they want when they have the time now instead of channel surfing or planning their schedule around specific broadcast times....except for live sports. Live sports is still the one thing that I think is holding together traditional TV channel packaging. That's why Sling TV is such a big deal. For the first time ever ESPN is available without a cable/satellite subscription. I think it's just a matter of time before ESPN and Fox Sports start offering their own streaming services. Might not be this year, but within a couple years I think it will happen. That will really be the watershed moment of this whole thing. That's when you really know that TV content distribution has completely changed in a revolutionary way. That's the last big domino that needs to fall.
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    Some of you may find this interesting. There is a vid of this around somewhere too.

    http://www.fool.com/investor-alert/s...or/sa-cabletv/
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