Recent content by ncted

I actually have the Apple One Premier plan for my family of 5, so I was including the entire price of that. I actually get YT Premium annually as well. I use gift cards I get on sale at Target (Red Card and Target Circle discounts), Best Buy, and Sam's to save on everything except Prime, which...

So, here is how I look at it: I used to pay like $120/month for Dish/DirecTV for a whole home DVR and 4 rooms with a higher-end programming package with HBO or Showtime. I probably watched about 10% of the channels I had in a given week at best, but I still struggled to find things to watch at...

Insiders tell me Apple is playing a very long game with the TV service -- to the point that they aren't even calculating profitability yet. Well, I am sure some accountant is, but the execs don't even want to be told. They are also very interested in overall profitability of their services...

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-dis-q2-earnings-report-2024-300990de?mod=hp_lead_pos6 The most interesting thing I found from the article: Excluding sports, Disney’s streaming business earned a profit of $47 million for the quarter. Once again, sports are both the savior and death...

Is this the kind of thing you are looking for? https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pluto-tv

Who was your provider? DOCSIS 2.0 only went up to 40Mb down, and DOCSIS 3.0 didn't come out until 2006. TimeWarner Cable didn't offer speeds over 20Mb where I am until the late 2000s.

Didn't mean to imply you did. I was the one criticizing journalism for being as bad as blog due to lack of copy editing.

It isn't like real journalism is that much better. We lost all the copy editors from the newsrooms at the newspaper company I worked for back during the Great Recession. Everyone was supposed to check each others work, but it was not the same as having dedicated people to do it.

It was already overpriced. This is just ridiculous.

Neither are TCL and HiSense anymore, or at least not only low end. Ratings from CNET, rtings.com, Digital Trends, etc. are quite high. Not quite as good as Sony/LG, but surprisingly close. They don't have to beat Sony/LG, but just be close enough and a lower cost to win a ton of customers...

What do you think Sony et. al. thought of TCL and HiSense a few years back? Now that is all anyone is talking about as the "best TVs." I am not saying I am going to buy a Roku, TCL, or HiSense, but things can change fast in a low-margin business like TVs.

https://thestreamable.com/news/roku-wants-to-use-home-screen-to-new-types-of-ads-to-customers-while-also-improving-content-discovery Wood said that he believes that a video-enabled ad unit on the Roku home screen will be “very popular with advertisers, I can tell you it will not be very...

Warning: paywalled (probably). https://www.wsj.com/business/media/nbc-prepares-roughly-2-5-billion-a-year-offer-to-steal-nba-rights-away-from-tnt-e6e14eeb?mod=hp_lead_pos2 NBC Prepares $2.5-Billion-a-Year Bid to Pluck NBA Rights From TNT League is in advanced stages of a new round of...

...she held out hope that a big buyer—maybe a technology giant—would emerge to take the whole company off her hands... This almost never happens. Tech companies are usually too smart to buy messes like existing media companies. This is why Apple never bought Disney despite everyone seemingly...

Not necessarily. I have orange coax going to my house from Spectrum, and it is definitely just regular coax with an orange sheath. My brother, who had fiber service from Spectrum, had a black fiber running to his house