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$35? What is this 1990? The fundamental problem I think is that this is yet another offering of packaged channels, 90% of which I don't want. Okay, maybe not 9

by bane 10y ago

$35? What is this 1990? The fundamental problem I think is that this is yet another offering of packaged channels, 90% of which I don't want. Okay, maybe not 90%, but in their initial channel offering I count at least 25 of the 46 channels I'm not even remotely interested in. Once you drop sports, Spanish language content, kids content and some of the more useless news channels I'd be paying effectively paying $35/mo for local TV I can already get for free, USA, FX, Bravo, FX, Syfy and I guess...Youtube Red? If I were to pay $1/mo for each channel I might watch, I might pay $4 or $5/mo for this. Dump the live TV entirely, just put the shows up so I can binge watch the ones I want. The "cloud DVR" is a dumb gimmick, all the content is already sliced and diced and uploaded to some server somewhere anyway. Ugh..this offering is probably only really of interest to sportsball enthusiasts who are desperate to cut the cord but can't.

camiller 10y ago
You omitted AMC from your list, or are you not a fan of The Walking Dead and Into The Badlands? Regardless, yeah, my wife likes Nebraska Football and I like Purdue Basketball so a service without BTN would be a deal breaker. And If I dropped my 200+ channel cable package (smallest I could get and get all of the things we both watch) and picked up either this or the $35 tier of Playstation Vue I'd save about $100 a month. We already have Netflix and Amazon Prime and I'd probably have to subscribe to HBO now for GoT and Westworld. I'd still save close to $100 a month AND get my sportsball!
- bane 10y ago
  Was AMC on the list? I must have lost it in the disinterest cloud that surrounded the four ESPNs. In all seriousness, I believe that we may be approaching a tipping point where sports franchises are going to have to come to terms about offering other ways to watch their games. Lots of people I know who do watch sports grumble about having to pay for 400 other channels they don't watch. So I know the feeling is mutual in some ways.

by bane 10y ago

camiller 10y ago

You omitted AMC from your list, or are you not a fan of The Walking Dead and Into The Badlands? Regardless, yeah, my wife likes Nebraska Football and I like Purdue Basketball so a service without BTN would be a deal breaker. And If I dropped my 200+ channel cable package (smallest I could get and get all of the things we both watch) and picked up either this or the $35 tier of Playstation Vue I'd save about $100 a month. We already have Netflix and Amazon Prime and I'd probably have to subscribe to HBO now for GoT and Westworld. I'd still save close to $100 a month AND get my sportsball!

bane 10y ago
Was AMC on the list? I must have lost it in the disinterest cloud that surrounded the four ESPNs. In all seriousness, I believe that we may be approaching a tipping point where sports franchises are going to have to come to terms about offering other ways to watch their games. Lots of people I know who do watch sports grumble about having to pay for 400 other channels they don't watch. So I know the feeling is mutual in some ways.