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New TV Deals With Broadcast Networks & Analysts Mar 21, 2021 19:49:12 GMT -6 via mobile

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Mar 21, 2021 12:42:16 GMT -6 NoresemanSam said:

Mar 20, 2021 23:02:27 GMT -6 vikecycle said:

My issue isn't that you can afford it, my issue is that you could have all the same content through official streaming services, for cheaper.

Not to mention, you could have all the same content through unofficial streaming sources, for free. Even your exact cable package could be had through an unlicensed IPTV service for a fraction of the cost. (I:E, entire directtv package available to stream for 10$ per month, etc. etc.)

My concern isnt that you cant afford cable, my concern it's not nessecary, especially when one catches on to how easy it is to get anything for free through the internet.

I buy what I want and recommend that others do the same.

I don't tell my neighbor what kind of car to buy.

I didn't tell you what to buy or not buy. I was just surprised you preferred cable to streaming, I don't see any practical benefit of cable > streaming, beyond simply being what most oldsters (not saying you lol) are used to.

Even the unofficial IPTV services (by far the cheapest option to get live channels) come off as pricey to me, I can only imagine what a cable bill is like, but I understand not everyone feels comfortable getting unlicensed content.

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New TV Deals With Broadcast Networks & Analysts Mar 21, 2021 23:16:25 GMT -6 Funkytown and vikecycle like this

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Mar 21, 2021 19:49:12 GMT -6 vikecycle said:

I was just surprised you preferred cable to streaming, I don't see any practical benefit of cable > streaming, beyond simply being what most oldsters (not saying you lol) are used to.

I've used both. The Comcast DVRs have a 30 second skip ahead and 15 second skip back function. Great for quickly skipping commercials and/or going back a small amount to catch something missed. The feeds are very robust/reliable. Streaming tends to get a bit glitchy when not simply starting something and watching it (hopefully) just play through to the end. That's not how I watch programming of all types. When I record NFL games on my Comcast DVR, I can start watching it after it's an hour or so in and "catch up" (by skipping all commercials and half time) by the end of the game. I can also wait two hours and see every play while skipping ahead through everything else. The 40 second play clock in the NFL works great with the 30 second skip ahead. When a team goes hurry up, I use a 15 second skip ahead (hit 15 second back button, followed by 30 second skip ahead button). Streaming offers me none of this.

That said, I still wind up watching most Viking games via unofficial streaming. This mostly works. It helps now that our Church has a great YouTube capability so that I can watch the games as they occur and than stream Church on YouTube later on Sunday. Before Covid, it was live (and glitchy) or nothing, so I usually missed part of the game to "attend" Church. Fortunately, then and now, Church is typically far more rewarding than Viking football.

ETA: I'm not sure what credentials are required to be in the "oldster" club, but I'm pretty sure I meet them.... (all)

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New TV Deals With Broadcast Networks & Analysts Nov 27, 2021 20:18:58 GMT -6

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Mar 21, 2021 12:48:32 GMT -6 Funkytown said:

Mar 20, 2021 21:48:50 GMT -6 NoresemanSam said:

Yep. It is “incredible.” There are still people in this world who can and do pay for HD cable with DVR from Comcast. I’m a consumer and freely chose to spend on this. It’s not like I’m choosing between cable and eating. (roflmao)

If you can’t afford cable, than buy what you can. It’s all good brother.

I do the same. It IS pricey, but I definitely still pay for cable.

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Post by Purple Pain on May 25, 2022 8:22:20 GMT -6

Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered. The NFL continues to test the warning that Mark Cuban offered in 2014.

Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal reports that the NFL will launch its own streaming service. It will be called NFL Plus.

The league is expected to sell the service for roughly $5 per month, but that could change.

Per Fischer, the service will focus on providing access to live games on mobile phones and tablet.

It’s not Sunday Ticket, however. Fans would be limited to the games they otherwise could see on local TV. Previously, Yahoo and some mobile phone carriers made those games available for streaming purposes.

Other content on NFL Plus will potentially include, via Fischer, “radio, podcasts, and miscellaneous team-created content.”

The challenge becomes getting someone to pay five bucks a month for access to games otherwise available to users via their current TV arrangements, whether it’s rabbit ears or cable or satellite or a streaming service. If they can see the games they otherwise would see on their TVs through other resources, why pay to get access directly from the NFL? And as to the other content on the NFL’s in-house service, there’s frankly so much free content out there that there’s no reason to pay for radio, podcasts, or whatever else will be created — especially since everything created by the league and its teams has a baked-in bias that consists of excessive cheerleading and insufficient attention paid to issues that could make Big Shield and the franchises hiding behind it look bad.

Nine years ago, the NFL launched a free streaming service dubbed NFL Now. It’s apparently still around, but it never really developed much traction. Now, at a time when people already are spending a five bucks here and 10 bucks there and 15 bucks over there for content that is truly unique, why pay $5 a month for games that are available on TV and content that duplicates, at best, the content that can be gotten anywhere for zero dollars per month?

We’re not saying football fans shouldn’t buy it. We’re just wondering why they would.

And we’re also wondering whether, as the league sits only two years away from the one-decade-away implosion that Cuban predicted, the pig is teetering on finally becoming a full-blown hog.

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Funkytown Owner Purple Pain Big Dog Posts: 67,627 Likes: 31,559 Fan Since: 1998	New TV Deals With Broadcast Networks & Analysts Jun 21, 2022 12:05:25 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Funkytown on Jun 21, 2022 12:05:25 GMT -6

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Funkytown Owner Purple Pain Big Dog Posts: 67,627 Likes: 31,559 Fan Since: 1998	New TV Deals With Broadcast Networks & Analysts Jul 11, 2022 10:17:14 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Funkytown on Jul 11, 2022 10:17:14 GMT -6

Funkytown Owner Purple Pain Big Dog Posts: 67,627 Likes: 31,559 Fan Since: 1998	New TV Deals With Broadcast Networks & Analysts Jul 14, 2022 1:48:35 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Funkytown on Jul 14, 2022 1:48:35 GMT -6