New Fee To Add Joey

[ncted]

nope, as the streamers will eventually add fees.

Are you saying that not everyone will switch because of the fees?

 

[mdram]

Are you saying that not everyone will switch because of the fees?

i am saying streaming companies will start adding more fees, and their prices will rise to be equal to cable/sat

 

[ncted]

i am saying streaming companies will start adding more fees, and their prices will rise to be equal to cable/sat

OK. And you think that will happen before the traditional linear providers go out of business?

 

[mdram]

possibly, prices are already going up, and more streams are usually higher price, the add in hulu that is running ads during pause. things are changing

 

[raven316]

possibly, prices are already going up, and more streams are usually higher price, the add in hulu that is running ads during pause. things are changing

I'm on a three month Dish pause while I try out youtube tv. Youtube tv is certainly more clunky when it comes to channel changing and such but it's still pretty good. If I decide to go back I guess I'll either try to negotiate or switch to Direct. What do you do with your equipment if you cancel?

 

[texasbrit]

Wait., what!!???

https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/at-t-gets-serious-about-sunsetting-satellites


In case you haven’t heard, AT&T is done launching DirecTV satellites.

The telecom, which purchased satellite-TV company DirecTV for $48.5 billion in 2015, has been not-so-quietly developing an Android TV-powered set-top box that would receive video channels over the open internet.

Now AT&T executives are openly discussing the Osprey, a piece of hardware that will eventually replace satellite receivers and dishes in customers' homes — and save the company gobs of money in the process.

“The biggest cost we have is the truck roll and getting that installation out,” AT&T chief financial officer John Stephens said at the Deutsche Bank Media, Internet & Telecom Conference.

“We’ve been beta-testing within our employee base a thing called Osprey, which is a self-installed, full linear product,” he said. “You don’t have to do a ‘roll the truck, pull out a ladder, climb the roof and put out a satellite dish.’ You can hook this box into your fiber line, your broadband line — whether it’s ours or somebody else’s — so effectively the only truck roll is the UPS truck.”

We heard about Osprey a very long time AGO.
Every ATT exec seems to have his own ideas about what's going to happen. One thing you can probably be certain of, ATT will make a mess of it.

 

[navychop]

You have to ship it back.


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[Bruce]

possibly, prices are already going up, and more streams are usually higher price, the add in hulu that is running ads during pause. things are changing

Prices did go up but so did Dish ( and Direct, Comcast and the rest ).

As far as streams go, not all services charges extra, Vue you get 5 at no extra charge, You Tube TV gets 3, Hulu and Dnow charge extra, have no idea what Sling charges, I have no interest.

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[ncted]

I'm on a three month Dish pause while I try out youtube tv. Youtube tv is certainly more clunky when it comes to channel changing and such but it's still pretty good. If I decide to go back I guess I'll either try to negotiate or switch to Direct. What do you do with your equipment if you cancel?

For me, the channel changing on YTTV wasn't all that bad, and the PQ was certainly good. It was just navigating to the content I wanted to watch/record/delete/whatever took so many clicks of the remote, and I felt like they could put a lot more information on the screen than they do. The DVR functionality on YTTV was oversimplified and resulted in too much scrolling through to find the thing I wanted to watch. Finally, the trick play was just ok. If I didn't have to FF commercials, like on Netflix or Prime, I wouldn't care, but with live TV, being able to skip commercials is a key function that I want to work as well as possible. It clearly works for a lot of people, and I say good for them, but it isn't for me at this point.

 

[ncted]

Prices did go up but so did Dish ( and Direct, Comcast and the rest ).

As far as streams go, not all services charges extra, Vue you get 5 at no extra charge, You Tube TV gets 3, Hulu and Dnow charge extra, have no idea what Sling charges, I have no interest.

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With Sling, it is 1, 3, or 4 streams, depending on which package or combination of packages you have.

 

[dare2be]

Prices did go up but so did Dish ( and Direct, Comcast and the rest ).

As far as streams go, not all services charges extra, Vue you get 5 at no extra charge, You Tube TV gets 3, Hulu and Dnow charge extra, have no idea what Sling charges, I have no interest.

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Curious, why no interest when you tried all those others?

 

[raven316]

I wonder if it will get better? I bought a couple of the new Roku's and I'm trying to learn how to use it on YTTV.