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Guess Who said:
Is that what everyone wants? I was under the impression the dream was not having to pay for 50 channels when most of them are shit you don't watch, and being able to subscribe to individual channels or even individual shows a la carte. I have no interest in paying $40+ a month to subsidize HGTV or IMPACT or whatever the hell.
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Unfortunately that's not happening right now. I mainly watch sports, I don't have cable, I sub to sports packages and use VPNs to get around blackouts. I roughly do what you describe. I'm curious, how many channels would you hypothetically sub to? What's the most you're willing to pay for a particular channel/network?
 
Guess Who said:
Is that what everyone wants? I was under the impression the dream was not having to pay for 50 channels when most of them are shit you don't watch, and being able to subscribe to individual channels or even individual shows a la carte. I have no interest in paying $40+ a month to subsidize HGTV or IMPACT or whatever the hell.
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It's likely that the channels and shows you want to watch are only able to exist because other cable subscribers subsidized those channels even though they don't watch them. What do people think is going to happen if individual channels and shows have to depend on direct subscriptions at some point in the future to survive?
 
It launches this week?

Holy fuck what a mess.
 
I mean it's fine for what it is.

What I never understood is why people thought this would be dramatically different/better than Sling or Vue.
 
I honestly don't know why AT&T put this launch event online. It wasn't aimed at consumers or press. Just give us the deets and save us the boredom.

Also, don't advertise an intro package price point as a main feature.

Finally, where is the channel lineup?
 
I tried to stream a football game while on Vacation. I signed up for a week's trial of CBS live and on demand service. I installed Xfinity's live and on demand app. I even signed up for NFL.


What I discovered is that for every engineer or designer creating technology to enable TV watching, there are five thousand lawyers trying to undermine and defeat any such idea.

TV (and NFL) IP people have basically decided that they will not be dragged into the modern day under any circumstances.

This is an industry completely obsessed with security and property and utterly disinterested in anything except the status quo.
 
Stinkles said:
I tried to stream a football game while on Vacation. I signed up for a week's trial of CBS live and on demand service. I installed Xfinity's live and on demand app. I even signed up for NFL.


What I discovered is that for every engineer or designer creating technology to enable TV watching, there are five thousand lawyers trying to undermine and defeat any such idea.

TV (and NFL) IP people have basically decided that they will not be dragged into the modern day under any circumstances.

This is an industry completely obsessed with security and property and utterly disinterested in anything except the status quo.
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Same can be said about the movie industry.
 
I have Sling and it works well. Got all the channels I want. If this DirecTV Now is better/priced the same, then I might consider switching over.
 
Channel Lineup!
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Didn't realize that Hulu and YouTube are trying to launch competing services.

Probably in on this one if I can get a free fire stick then wait and see what Hulu and YouTube offer.
 
I'd honestly rather go with Sling. More bang for your buck and without the $35 intro price, that price structure might as well be regular TV.
 
Pretty sure I can only get either Comcast or Verizon internet where I live. So this service isn't for me? I assume it would eat up too much bandwidth with Comcast's 100 GB cap.

Edit: 1 TB! sorry
 
35 bucks a month is pretty nice, but no Cloud DVR means that it's a no-go for me.

Nevermind the fact that the introductory price will surely disappear and then it no longer has a price advantage over Vue at that point.
 
I'm really happy with Vue EXCEPT (and it's huge) that nearly everything is blocked on mobile when I'm not on my home network.

I was just a couple hours from home this weekend and I wanted to watch the St. Louis Blues game.

-I pay for DirecTV
-I pay for NHL.tv
-I pay for PS Vue
-Not that it matters, but I was even paying for tickets to the damn game via my season ticket package but doh..

I was blocked on every attempt to watch the game. I legit have the proper channel in 2 different packages, but the stupid blackout rules got me. I feel like I should have been able to watch on the Fox app b/c it's on FSMW but that failed too.

Wondering if this will be any different, guessing no.
 
Might switch to this from vue since vues regional fox sports is still messed up

If I have uverse will this not count against my data cap? I know they said for mobile it wouldn't.
 
The actual (not limited time) $35 tier has basically all the same channels as Vue's $30 tier - and more importantly, the ones I would care about - but the $5 HBO add on is a sweet deal versus the $15 on Vue. Net $5 savings per month. Will have to consider.
 
Skel1ingt0n said:
2008-2012: People drop Blockbuster for Netflix and Cable for Hulu
2012-2015: Netflix and Hulu prices go up, while content gets cut
2016-2018: Cable companies gobble up streaming services and brand their own

2020: Everyone is paying the same amount as they were, for the same channels, from the same provider. Only this time, it's over the internet. But oh yeah, now we all have data caps.


... The funniest part, is now cable TV is as cheap as it's ever been.

I effectively pay $60/month and have ~100 channels, HBO, and 3 DVRs. And I'm locked into that price for three more years.
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own your own equipment and cable is just as cheap, or cheaper, as building a streaming package to match it.
 
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