Premium Member Sothron Posted February 2, 2021 Premium Member Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 Am I the only person left who watches the games on cable tv? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High5 Posted February 2, 2021 Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Sothron said: Am I the only person left who watches the games on cable tv? I still do, but I would have made the switch to Hulu or YouTube if not for this Fox Sports dispute. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Wretch Posted February 2, 2021 Premium Member Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 29 minutes ago, Sothron said: Am I the only person left who watches the games on cable tv? I think it's more about the future of TV. The days of forcing people to pay for channels they don't watch is coming to an end. Youtube TV was great for $50 and it had local sports. Unlimited cloud DVR and watch anywhere on any device... They're slowly turning into what cable providers are though with price hikes and channel disputes... When providers start selling their channels direct to consumer (like Sinclair is rumored to be working on), even the streaming TV providers are going to go away I think. This could have been the model for cable TV, but corporate greed and all that I suppose... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators macdaddy Posted February 2, 2021 Moderators Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Sothron said: Am I the only person left who watches the games on cable tv? The truth is that YoutubeTV, Hulu live sports, sling, At&tTv are all just cable tv. Only difference is they are delivered over the internet vs a dedicated tv line. Even that difference is pretty blurry. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Wretch Posted February 2, 2021 Premium Member Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 1 hour ago, macdaddy said: The truth is that YoutubeTV, Hulu live sports, sling, At&tTv are all just cable tv. Only difference is they are delivered over the internet vs a dedicated tv line. Even that difference is pretty blurry. That's true...in terms of service they are mostly the same. There is another distinction that's pretty big. With streaming providers, there's no equipment. No dish mounted to your home, no box with a remote control, and it's not bound to just your residence. You can stream live TV anywhere you have a browser and a network connection. That that's a big deal. For me it was that and the fact that YTTV was only $50 with an unlimited cloud DVR. The big revolution, and when the line will be clearly drawn, is going to happen when all of these providers sell direct to consumer. That's when bundle providers (cable or streaming) are going to have a tough sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators macdaddy Posted February 2, 2021 Moderators Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 32 minutes ago, Wretch said: That's true...in terms of service they are mostly the same. There is another distinction that's pretty big. With streaming providers, there's no equipment. No dish mounted to your home, no box with a remote control, and it's not bound to just your residence. You can stream live TV anywhere you have a browser and a network connection. That that's a big deal. For me it was that and the fact that YTTV was only $50 with an unlimited cloud DVR. The big revolution, and when the line will be clearly drawn, is going to happen when all of these providers sell direct to consumer. That's when bundle providers (cable or streaming) are going to have a tough sell. Very true but if you're going to watch on TV then you do have a box (roku, firestick) and remote and i'm pretty sure now you can watch cable tv online in other places too with xfinity apps. So they are becoming more like each other. As you mentioned to me the big issue is that streaming is now $80/month which is basically the price of basic cable. The biggest difference for me is being able to cancel, start, stop the service on a whim, no rented equipment, calls to beg and all that crap. I just don't understand why there isn't a truly a la cart tv service (i was hopeing youtubetv would become that) where i pick channels i want and pay only for those but i guess the model depends on serving the less popular channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Wretch Posted February 3, 2021 Premium Member Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 5 hours ago, macdaddy said: Very true but if you're going to watch on TV then you do have a box (roku, firestick) and remote and i'm pretty sure now you can watch cable tv online in other places too with xfinity apps. So they are becoming more like each other. As you mentioned to me the big issue is that streaming is now $80/month which is basically the price of basic cable. The biggest difference for me is being able to cancel, start, stop the service on a whim, no rented equipment, calls to beg and all that crap. I just don't understand why there isn't a truly a la cart tv service (i was hopeing youtubetv would become that) where i pick channels i want and pay only for those but i guess the model depends on serving the less popular channels. I was really happy with YouTube TV until the Sinclair/RSN fiasco. I'm still ok with the $15 price hike. I'm ashamed to tell ya'll what I was paying for Uverse TV for 2 years lol That and AT&T customer service is so unfathomably bad. I will *NEVER* willingly subscribe to anything they offer. They're lucky I live out in the woods and they are the only ISP. We miraculously got fiber out here a few years ago, otherwise I might have just moved simply because of their terrible service (and bad customer service). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators macdaddy Posted February 3, 2021 Moderators Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 11 hours ago, Wretch said: I was really happy with YouTube TV until the Sinclair/RSN fiasco. I'm still ok with the $15 price hike. I'm ashamed to tell ya'll what I was paying for Uverse TV for 2 years lol That and AT&T customer service is so unfathomably bad. I will *NEVER* willingly subscribe to anything they offer. They're lucky I live out in the woods and they are the only ISP. We miraculously got fiber out here a few years ago, otherwise I might have just moved simply because of their terrible service (and bad customer service). Yeah. I felt the same about xfinity. I was lucky to get Google Fiber internet a couple years ago. I've used pretty much every streaming TV service at one point and youtubeTV is so much better than all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NBASupes Posted February 3, 2021 Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 21 hours ago, Sothron said: Am I the only person left who watches the games on cable tv? Yep. I haven't paid for cable in years but I still pay cable for the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkItus Posted February 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 Once the cable/satellite collapse watch your internet double and the caps get serious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member JeffS17 Posted February 3, 2021 Premium Member Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 On 2/2/2021 at 12:54 PM, Sothron said: Am I the only person left who watches the games on cable tv? I watch online through my parents cable login -- does that count? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member NineOhTheRino Posted February 11, 2021 Premium Member Report Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) I used EpressVPN to get the $18 steal deal on LP but I had zero luck getting LP to stream Hawks games with ExpressVPN. Very odd. Edited February 11, 2021 by NineOhTheRino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators macdaddy Posted March 17, 2021 Moderators Report Share Posted March 17, 2021 https://thestreamable.com/news/sinclair-wont-bring-rebranded-fox-sports-rsns-direct-to-consumer-until-2022 So the 'Bally Sports' rebranding is happening 3/31 in advance of the baseball season but an app to watch the FOXSSE (or whatever it will be called) without a cable or atttv subscribtion won't be until 2022. So that sucks. Sounds like they aren't interested in getting back on the other streaming channels despite losing a boatload of money. So it's AT&T TV for me for a while i guess. You would think the teams would lose money by not having the viewership but i guess their haul is locked in. Not sure how that works. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazer Posted March 18, 2021 Report Share Posted March 18, 2021 Loved YTTV until they started raising prices. Losing FSSE was final straw, so I jumped to ATTTV just for Hawks and Braves. When Bally goes direct, I’ll be dropping ATTTV like it’s hawt 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member JayBirdHawk Posted April 18, 2021 Premium Member Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 Anyone thinks that the Bally theme song is reminiscent of Game of Thrones? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member NineOhTheRino Posted October 21, 2021 Premium Member Report Share Posted October 21, 2021 New year. Same problem. At&t (now DIRECTTV Stream) dumped the option to add regional sports to any package. Now you have to get the $85 package to get regional sports. I just don't get why the NBA and its broadcast partners make if so hard on local market fans. 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazer Posted October 21, 2021 Report Share Posted October 21, 2021 4 minutes ago, NineOhTheRino said: New year. Same problem. At&t (now DIRECTTV Stream) dumped the option to add regional sports to any package. Now you have to get the $85 package to get regional sports. I just don't get why the NBA and its broadcast partners make if so hard on local market fans. Yep, bit the bullet and dropped YTTV and ante’d up the 85 bux for DirectTV Stream a few weeks ago 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Mule Posted October 21, 2021 Report Share Posted October 21, 2021 8 minutes ago, hazer said: Yep, bit the bullet and dropped YTTV and ante’d up the 85 bux for DirectTV Stream a few weeks ago Yep. I had to do that last season to watch the Hawks. $85.00 per month to watch. Ugh. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kg01 Posted October 21, 2021 Report Share Posted October 21, 2021 Don't worry, folks that try to use the Bally (cr)app probably won't be able to watch anyways. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawksNWaffles Posted October 21, 2021 Report Share Posted October 21, 2021 ...... thankfully my semi legal tv service picks up the channels. Haven't used cable or the other internet tv providers simply because I knee that the prices would start to raise either way. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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