Posted on 01/06/2018 12:37:16 PM PST by impetrio1
Many of us who have to buy some kind of cable television have avoided the overpriced, premium movie channels that rotate the same films and occasionally give you a new option you'll watch once. So we're forced to buy a basic cable package that has a very few daily go-to channels and others we have no real reason to waste our time on and that's how they get us.
Imagine how many more people would sign up for cable if they ONLY have to pay for channels and content they wanted?
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LOL!
Did you see where the Netflix social media guy Tweeted “please stop calling our customer service hotline to ask if we have The Gorilla Channel”? Hilarious.
https://twitter.com/netflix/status/949449196536393728
And some of the responses, and responses to the responses, are classic.
I got basic cable thrown in with my subscription package, high speed internet and home phone service and I added News group (for FN) and Prime group which has History, Discovery, A&E and 4 or 5 other channels for $9 ... but barely watch it as I get Foxnews live on Youtube stream and ONAN online for $4.99 a month with KlowdTV (though $5 a month for one channel is a bit much, will probably cancel it in month or two) ....and Netflix, we’re good!
Whether cable or OTA, most of the channels here are in Spanish or Korean.
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Where is “here”?
maybe you should move back to the USA.
I’ve lived without all of it for years.
Anything to do with sports. Especially ESPN.
Los Angeles. But yeah, I miss the USA.
ALL of it.
ALL of them. I only keep cable tv so Mrs. POF can watch every game of every sport played by humans. Plus Judge Judy.
Me? DVD movies and some streaming content fro Netflix and Amazon.
All the news I need is available on the world’s first and still best user-supported, crowd-sourced news network. I’ll leave it to you to figure out which one that is.
I haven’t watched a news network or show in probably 30 or 40 years — it is all ultra-liberal, generally dumb people blurting things out without much thought or insight, and people screaming at each other or talking over each other. Yuck.
Hopefully they also get outside and play sports, too. Our son is living at home in his mid 20s while he is back in school. His buds still come over to watch sports, but they are more frequently outside playing football, basketball, tennis, softball, and hiking.
Demand for ala carte cable selection has been around for decades. McCain even had it as one of his planks in his presidential run in 2008.
It won’t happen until the internet and streaming services force cable/satellite carriers to change their models. And at the rate cable/satellite providers are losing customers, it might be sooner than we think.
Most, if not all of them.
I luv the Tivo Bolt - 4 tuners. It costs me what cable would charge for a 2-tuner recorder. It doesn’t pick up all of the stations, but neither does the cable company’s ‘mini box’ tuner.
I dropped a tier a year ago. I only watched BBC-America and that got to be the StarTrek:NextGeneration rerun channel. I was surprised at how bad BBC-A was. I expected it to broadcast a lot of British shows. No, most the ST:NG. It usually only carried one ‘new’ series every quarter. I think most of the series I did watch have already been cancelled.
Services like philo.com, Youtube Plus, etc., follow the old cable/satellite models of tiers for different contents.
THE service that ever goes ala carte could own the industry in a couple of years.
That is partly why Netflix was so successful with their streaming — no commercials and a low monthly fee. From what I hear, even CBS Access shows have commercials. ABC/Disney just bought the Fox stuff for their content with the intention of expanding into a streaming service. My cable offers ‘on demand’ for many channels, but those offerings include commercials.
It will be interesting to see which ones survive and what new competition comes in the near future.
Cut the cable a few years ago after I found out our local libraries have DVDS. TV shows,music,all of it... usually hit TV shows come by season..most of the premium shows
on Showtime...HBO..eventually show
up in their menu... FREE of course
Morris county NJ...literally thousand of DVDs
...I also get most of my 45 channels OTA out of Philly and a few out of NY
“Hopefully they also get outside and play sports, too.”
Absolutely, and yes, they do. They’re all very active (cross country, soccer, baseball, triathlons, etc.), and the sports watching is usually in the evening when the sun is down. I sometimes go out to play with them, but the last time I did I wound up pulling a hamstring. So much for the weekend warrior..
I’m not sure if I’ve even seen any TV since Christmas.
All of them. We cut the cord about 4 years ago.
If genuine al la carte tv comes along, we might spring for it, but until then streaming works just great.
LOL...that is a bad moment in life when can no longer beat the kids, huh? I remember the first time my son beat me down the ski slopes and could hit a fast ball I could barely even see!
the worst three words in the english language are when my wife says, “I’m watching lifetime”.
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