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Thats nice but how many simutanious streams will be availavble per subscription? Thats the real question..can you have multiple tvs watching multiple games...or can you only watch 1 game at a time
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Ok, now you are shifting from not fast enough internet to multiple TVs.
YTTV provides 3 streams without a extra box charge unlike DirecTV, I assume they will do something similar for ST, but no one knows yet.
But since the start of next season is roughly 9 months away, information is forthcoming, probably quickly.
They have also stated they are working on multi-view.
Anything else you wish to bring up as a negative?
Not from what I've seen. My Local OTA is noticeably better compared to Cable. Also, two of our channels are now broadcast using HDR (ATSC 3.0). And I really notice the difference with ATSC 3.0
Internet varies from town to town...some people are stuck with DSL..others uverse...of course no one knows yet...one can only assume they will use the same model they currently use..
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What stations, I am in Kissimmee and wish to check it out and my Sony Z9K has a 3.0 tuner.
Depending on how they implement it, it might not require any additional bandwidth. If they send you four full HD streams and your set top app combines them that will require 4x bandwidth.
They could send four lower quality streams to reduce the bandwidth per stream so it is only a little more than one, or they could do the combination on their end and use the same bandwidth as one.
But with the last option..can you pick one game from the mix and make it full screen?
WUCF PBS Station 24 and also Channel 18 WKCF both use HDR if that's your question
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YouTube needs 2.3M subscribers to break even on NFL Sunday Ticket (GOOG)
Google's (GOOG) (GOOGL) YouTube TV streaming service needs to have at least 2.25M subscribers sign-up for its NFL Sunday Ticket service to break even.
seekingalpha.com
Run the numbersYouTube needs 2.3M subscribers to break even on NFL Sunday Ticket (GOOG)
Google's (GOOG) (GOOGL) YouTube TV streaming service needs to have at least 2.25M subscribers sign-up for its NFL Sunday Ticket service to break even.
Way too much speculation in there. We don't even know the pricing.YouTube needs 2.3M subscribers to break even on NFL Sunday Ticket (GOOG)
Google's (GOOG) (GOOGL) YouTube TV streaming service needs to have at least 2.25M subscribers sign-up for its NFL Sunday Ticket service to break even.
That said, I don't think they'll have any problem making money on this. The pool of potential subscribers is limited only by broadband availability...and contrary to certain doomsayers in this discussion, those with insufficient bandwidth are a very small percentage of the population.
The ESPN and FuboTV apps have been doing this for a while now on the Apple TV, and it works like that. 4 screens at once, click on one to make it full screen, click the back button to go back to 4 screens, swipe left/right/up/down to select a screen for the audio. It’s pretty nice. I wish all apps did this.
doesn't the NFL have an MAX SUBS rule for NFL ticket as part of the deal with FOX and CBS?
What's more it appears to be incredibly terrible math.
The seekingalpha article says the assumptions are 1.7 million "new" subscribers to Youtube TV (plus NFLST) and a half million NFLST only subscribers.
If you do the math 1.7 million subscribers to Youtube TV at $65/month is $1.326 billion, and 2.25 million subscribers to NFLST at $300/year is $675 million.
OK, that adds up to $2.001 billion so $1 million a year in profit after paying the NFL $2 billion, right? Only if you assume Google has zero cost not only for delivering NFLST, but for delivering Youtube TV! And they obviously don't for the latter after paying $10 for ESPN and $25 for local channels, not to mention the rest. They probably don't even make a profit at $65/month but even if they do it is only a few dollars a month not $65 a month!
Now obviously Youtube is banking on individually targeted advertising to create revenue, using the 2 to 4 minutes per hour reserved for local affiliates (for NFLST and other network broadcasts) or commercial insertion slots for "cable TV" channels like ESPN or HGTV. How much they make from that is the unknown, but that's obviously where they hope to monetize NFLST (especially if they can get people to "cord cut" from cable/satellite and sign up for their virtual cord)
Well they might not be new Google users..meaning google already is selling their personal data
What TV shows you watch and what NFL teams you watch are new data to Google even for people who are already "supplying" them lots of personal data.
If I signed up for NFLST they'd get that data from me, but they wouldn't get much of anything else on me since I don't use Android, Chrome, GMail or Google Search.
This is a bit too simplistic. Those 1.7m YTTVs are seeing more than '2-4 minutes of affiliate ads', and even those who don't sub to YTTV will see more than that served by Google as they interact with and navigate the service outside of the broadcasts. There are numerous opportunities there (watch now via the Pepsi MAX View, 4 games at once!) for advertising and other product placement - and then there's the bit about this not all being just the rights to the broadcasts. This is also a sponsorship deal for kickoff weekend and other events, driving more advertising, more brand value / awareness, etc. If they got these numbers within the first year or two this will be the beginning of a very long and very lucrative relationship with the NFL.
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