Yeah. My mom (83) is having a wonderful time trying to figure out Hulu+Live so she can watch college football. I might actually go visit her, just so I can write her some documentation on how to use it. I haven't really found anything good on YouTube or the Internet in general which actually tells people how to do simple tasks on the service.
Never had Spectrum. Last cable provider was Time Warner. Then we bounced back and forth between DTV & DISH for many years. Finally cancelled DISH just last month and ended up going with YTTV. had experimented with it a few times since my daughter has it also. Since we are a couple of those old folks we wanted something easy to learn and provide everything we wanted. Was going Togo with Philo until i realized my old Tablo couldn’t stream our recordings/local out of our home network. At that point that only left us 4 choices and two of those, Fubo and DTVS didn’t have the specific channels we wanted. That left Hulu + live and YTTV. Signed up one morning for the Hulu one morning (no free previews) and within about an hour of searching I still couldn’t figure out how to find the channel guide. I never did! I called them back immediately and they were kind enough to cancel and return our $70+. At that point we went with YTTV and are happy. Like many older folks the lack of channel numbers is a royal PIA but the ability to customize the channel guide helps. Then throw in the ability to push a couple of buttons and record every college football game for the season is awesome. We are hooked. You know, us older folks don’t stay up for those 8pm night games so we get us at dawn and watch football with breakfast! Breakfast of champions.
I find it interesting that ESPN is carrying the flack here, when it was FOX that turned RSNs into must carries, taking it away from its originally a la carte status that almost all RSNs had had up to that point.
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This is going to be the future. Cable/satellite as we know it will be gone. The only way to sub to channels will be directly and the viewer will pay the going rate. Already streaming services like Paramount+, Disney+, etc have been going up. Most do not have the money to keep shelling out the money they want. I went with the Plex pack with Dish where I do not get Disney to keep the price down.
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Disney Fight Marks Cable TV’s Last Stand
Dispute with Charter’s Spectrum has left millions without access to football and the U.S. Open—and could mean a permanent change to the business as customers flee to streaming at an accelerated pace
"The cable-TV bundle has been bleeding subscribers for the better part of a decade. Customers were turned off by the ever-growing cost of traditional television and were drawn to cheaper streaming options."
Yeah, well. That is the world we live in these days. Not like the old days where you'd have to buy a newspaper to read it.
If we had 50 companies buying for anything prices would be lower.....just look at the NFL deal....you had a few companies that could offer billions....now have 25 and they can all offer half as much....the consumer would win.....a handful of big players set the prices for all to follow.....we never allowed this till the 80s.....look at Comcast....Disney....there to big!....
