Posted on 01/05/2015 9:15:01 PM PST by Mozilla
Dish Network recognizes that people, especially millennials, aren't subscribing to pay TV and they're hoping to make that segment of consumers new customers with the introduction of Sling TV, an over-the-top service that costs $20 a month with no contract beyond a month-to-month commitment.
Dish announced Sling TV, which has no direct connection with Slingbox or Sling Media (although both have a link to EchoStar, the parent of Disney Network), at CES on Monday, when CEO Joe Clayton introduced it as "a brand for this consumer segment" that "offers our new customers programming that is tailored to their wants and needs."
Dish says Sling TV will launch in the coming weeks with between 25 and 30 channels, including ESPN and ESPN2, which could have huge appeal to sports fans who have had to buy a full cable or satellite package to get those channels. Other channels available include TNT, TBS, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and the Disney Channel. This is not an a la carte service (you can’t buy one channel at a time) and it will include the carriage of commercials. It also does not include local TV signals, which means there is no need for Sling TV to pay those huge retransmission license fees.
Sling TV can be watched over the Internet using a number of low-priced devices including Amazon Fire TV Stick, Google Nexus Player, Roku, Windows PC, Xbox One and LG Smart TVs. It includes features such as fast forward, pause and rewind capabilities and three-day replay of certain live events. In some cases it will also offer on-demand viewing of certain shows that have already aired.
The list of content is limited in order to keep the price low. There are going to be additional bundles....
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Notice they’re still not going to office channel by channel choice because they know they’ll lose money. We watch maybe half a dozen channels so their 20 would still be too many. I don’t care a thing about ESPN.
Exactly. We just want the Cartoon Network. Period. (Too much idiocy, depravity, and boredom on regular entertainment channels. Too many lies on the news channels. And with the Cartoon Network we never ever have to see The One!)
Just waiting for a package with Fox, Fox Business & American Heroes (formerly Military channel).
It’s the wave of the future. Look around, ninety-five percent of the population use between ten and twenty channels max. When I had that stupid 99-channel deal for $40...I might have flipped through all the options once or twice, but I simply didn’t care for the vast majority of what they offered. This is the way that most people think and operate. The day of a guy’s greatest fantasy...a 500-channel cable option...has come and gone.
The problem with 500 channels is that it takes you an hour and a half to figure out there’s nothing on.
I just download the latest shows via torrent files.
I believe the correct term would be "boatload of commercials".
You misspelled “butt-load”.
FOX, ESPN and Food Network is all I need.
With my cable, I had to sign up for a tier that offers about 30 channels just to get BBC America. The trouble is, most of those channels are teen/rap music, cartoons, kiddie programs, and a couple of old movie/tv channels.
All I wanted was BBC America. I am about ready to drop that tier. BBCA has been disappointing — too many old American scifi. I can get those on other cable channels and Netflix.
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