Cutting the Cable

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by TheFreak55, May 14, 2015.

  1. Truman

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    I havent noticed a huge difference between cable/sat vs a streaming service. But NF is definitely a better picture because of how movies and TV are 'filmed' vs live events.
     
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  2. racer

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    It could be the capabilities of your player, too.
     
  3. Houndster

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    YTTV quality can go in and out occasionally, but I’m using it to watch sports 95% of the time.
     
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  4. Det. Frank Bullitt

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    streaming is flexible and can innovate much faster than wired cable, but with that said there is a lot of headroom on the "picture quality" side from streaming providers.

    They are generally investing in raw resolution, but higher FPS, better bitrate, multi-angle/PIP have seen boosts in the past few years for certain providers/platforms.
     
  5. TDintheCorner

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    Welp...it was nice while it lasted.

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  6. DuffandMuff

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    I just got YouTube tv last week. Perfect timing.
     
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  7. Baron

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    FUCK.
     
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  8. TDintheCorner

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    It still won't be enough to keep me if I can't watch MLB but that should come with a pretty significant price decrease.

    It won't.
     
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  9. Shiggityshwo

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    this is why nobody likes you Sinclair
     
  10. 1

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    Doesn't really affect me but still sucks. Regardless, I'm guessing they'll continue to work on negotiations and get them back eventually.
     
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  11. TDintheCorner

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    Yeah I think so too. Surely they realize there will be a mass exodus without regional sports coverage.
     
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  12. racer

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    I think you may be overestimating the amount of customers that really care about this.
     
  13. TDintheCorner

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  14. Tobias

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    it murders them in the southeast with braves fans

    i will 100% be cancelling now
     
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  15. Baron

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    It murders them a lot of places I would believe. Baseball, hockey, basketball are aired on the regional fox most places. Hell, the YES network alone might be a dent in their subscribers.
     
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  16. phunkybuck

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    Switched from Sling to YTTV for the regional Fox channels. Will now be going back to Sling because it's $15 cheaper and equivalent level of service.
     
  17. NP13

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    Baseball starting up, and NBA and NHL playoffs right around the corner, this is just a pure money grab for Sinclair. Bastards
     
  18. Tobias

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    sinclair was a deeply evil company even before this
     
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  19. Shiggityshwo

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    Think I'm gonna ride it out for a bit and just use my mom's dtv login to watch those channels online when needed, my cloud's too stocked to just say goodbye
     
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  20. Festus McBadass

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    Me too. I’ll give them until opening day to work something out. If not, I’m definitely canceling.
     
  21. Tobias

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  22. Baron

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  23. Kent Pavelka

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    Who has Hulu Live? Losing Twins is a dealbreaker for me.
     
  24. TDintheCorner

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    Big fan of Kasey

     
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  25. Tarpon Nole

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    Well I was literally about to dump Hulu live for Youtube this weekend when I had a few minutes to sign up.

    Not happening now. Rays season starting and Lightning playoff run, I need sun sports
     
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  26. ono

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    Hulu was my least favorite of the four I tried. But now, it's the only option.

    I may just say fuck it and go back to cable.
     
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  27. Baron

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    See bottom tweet.

     
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  28. Tarpon Nole

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  29. MA

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    If YTTV is willing to incur the ill will of going through with this, I wouldn't expect them to get the RSNs back until next season at the earliest.
     
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  30. ono

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    Kind of where I'm at. The first SKC game is Saturday. They have until then to get it resolved, otherwise, off to Hulu I go.
     
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  31. Houndster

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    MLB doesn’t start for another month, I’d bet it’s back by then.
     
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  32. Det. Frank Bullitt

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    DFW user, no email - so I might not be affected.
     
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  33. Shawn Hunter

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    All the NBA playoff games are on national networks anyways.
     
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    I know MLB is not directly involved in this decision but they just continue to further alienate viewers at a time when their average fan is going to die of old age in 10 yrs.
     
  35. Tarpon Nole

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  36. Kent Pavelka

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    Hulu live seems to blow asshole. $14 extra clams a month to fast forward through commercials?

    i never watch sports live so I don’t need to watch em.

    I’m all sour.
     
  37. Houndster

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    Wait what. It costs $14 to fast forward recorded content?
     
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  38. Baron

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    Man, I’m about to get a promo rate via cable for 2 years. This shit pisses me off.
     
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  39. TimJimothy

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    Hey fuck you.
     
  40. 1

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    :yousoricky:
     
  41. 1

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    Hulolu am I right?!
     
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  42. Kent Pavelka

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    Through commercials apparently. Goes with the extended cloud add-on.
     
  43. laxjoe

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    Yeah the dvr on Hulu is awful. It’s why I switched from it originally
     
  44. Zebbie

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    girlfriend has Hulu Live & it drives me nuts compared to YTTV because it’s not intuitive at all...not sure if I’ll just get her to login to her account on my Apple TV so I can watch Fox Sports SW or what I’m gonna do, but I really don’t want to have to switch from YTTV.
     
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  45. Roger Klotz

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    Welp, legal cord-cutting was nice while it lasted. No chance I'm paying extra to fast forward through DVR content or entering into a 2 year contract with cable/satellite to pay $100/mo for a service i will only use 20% of.
    I think I'll take the $50/mo I was spending on YTTV and buy a few hard drives and just start torrencing the shows I watch, and use illegal streams for live sports.

    MLB and NHL could really make a killing right now selling their mlb.tv and nhl.tv services if they'd just lift the stupid ass blackouts. Find a way to use location to still push local ads. Youtube and Hulu were able to figure this out, surely MLB can. I'd gladly pay the $125 for the year to watch all the Rangers games and say goodbye to the streaming platforms and the 80% of the channels I never watch. Torrencing shows is easy... illegally streaming live sports can be tough.
     
  46. TimJimothy

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    I wonder what sport has the oldest fanbase?
     
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  47. Tarpon Nole

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    It's weird because sometimes you can fast forward and sometimes you can't. There's absolutely no reason to have a DVR with Hulu though as you get everything you normally do with Hulu. I guess maybe if you were DVR a live sports game is the only thing I can think of
     
  48. Kent Pavelka

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    yep, and sports is the only treason to have cable or a live streamer anyway.
     
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    Of the "major" ones...it has to be baseball followed closely by golf. It feels like those two are moving in opposite directions though.
     
  50. Tobias

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    i would just use my parents login for the fox sports app but unless something has changed drastically in the last couple years, that app is flaming garbage