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Everyone I know sans maybe one person has cable/satellite. So I don't know what future you're living in. The problem to me is they aren't showing replays that

Everyone I know sans maybe one person has cable/satellite. So I don't know what future you're living in. The problem to me is they aren't showing replays that I feel a lot of people want to see on air, so you can't watch at a bar/restaurant. This to me is the major problem with sports on streaming. People like to watch at bars, but bars often don't have streaming devices on hand or a staff that wants to deal with it.

vernie 5y ago
Maybe it's a generational thing? I don't know anybody with cable or satellite, not even my parents.
- matwood 5y ago
  For me it's not generational, but cheaper. Adding the base TV package to my internet is cheaper than no-cap internet alone. I rarely watch live TV, but it helps that I can use my TV login to stream most of the channels on-demand.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago
  The only people I know with cable/satellite TV subscriptions are 50+ years old who grew up in the US. All my immigrant elders use IPTV boxes now to get their international channels.
- rufus_foreman 5y ago
  I just turned 50 and I have cable TV for the first time now since I lived with my parents in the 80's. Maybe along with your eyesight and your hearing when you turn 50 you start to lose that part of your mental reasoning that tells you cable TV is a bad idea. Seriously though, I got tired of switching to different streaming providers when one of them suddenly lost access to some specific content that I was interested in. Cable now is just another streaming content provider.
- partiallypro 5y ago
  I'm not that old though, I'm in the youngest bracket to be paying bills outside of a college student.
chungy 5y ago
I think the people that have cable/satellite TV are roughly the same ones that still have landline phones. Sure, it exists, not like there's nobody, but I'm pretty sure it's less than half in total.
- cududa 5y ago
  I can think of tons of people I know with cable and the only person I can think of with a landline is my grandma, and my stepdad’s extremely rural vacation cabin
- partiallypro 5y ago
  Not true, more than half of the US has cable/satellite subscriptions (~61%). It has shrunk but it is still the majority. I don't buy the argument that "cord cutting" is necessarily less expensive when you add up all the streaming services, especially given streaming services are currently low balling to bring in customers. In any case, no one has addressed the problem of sports bars/bars being unable to service customers on streaming exclusive events.
JohnFen 5y ago
> Everyone I know sans maybe one person has cable/satellite. So I don't know what future you're living in. The same one as me, apparently. I don't know a single person who has cable or satellite either.

vernie 5y ago

Maybe it's a generational thing? I don't know anybody with cable or satellite, not even my parents.

matwood 5y ago
For me it's not generational, but cheaper. Adding the base TV package to my internet is cheaper than no-cap internet alone. I rarely watch live TV, but it helps that I can use my TV login to stream most of the channels on-demand.
lotsofpulp 5y ago
The only people I know with cable/satellite TV subscriptions are 50+ years old who grew up in the US. All my immigrant elders use IPTV boxes now to get their international channels.
rufus_foreman 5y ago
I just turned 50 and I have cable TV for the first time now since I lived with my parents in the 80's. Maybe along with your eyesight and your hearing when you turn 50 you start to lose that part of your mental reasoning that tells you cable TV is a bad idea. Seriously though, I got tired of switching to different streaming providers when one of them suddenly lost access to some specific content that I was interested in. Cable now is just another streaming content provider.
partiallypro 5y ago
I'm not that old though, I'm in the youngest bracket to be paying bills outside of a college student.

chungy 5y ago

I think the people that have cable/satellite TV are roughly the same ones that still have landline phones. Sure, it exists, not like there's nobody, but I'm pretty sure it's less than half in total.

cududa 5y ago
I can think of tons of people I know with cable and the only person I can think of with a landline is my grandma, and my stepdad’s extremely rural vacation cabin
partiallypro 5y ago
Not true, more than half of the US has cable/satellite subscriptions (~61%). It has shrunk but it is still the majority. I don't buy the argument that "cord cutting" is necessarily less expensive when you add up all the streaming services, especially given streaming services are currently low balling to bring in customers. In any case, no one has addressed the problem of sports bars/bars being unable to service customers on streaming exclusive events.

JohnFen 5y ago

> Everyone I know sans maybe one person has cable/satellite. So I don't know what future you're living in. The same one as me, apparently. I don't know a single person who has cable or satellite either.