This still won't work. Providers have to get theirs too, so by placing an amount over top or the cost of equipment going up to ridiculous amounts. I want ala carte as much as the next person, but ultimately it's a failed idea. Don't even get ala carte on Netflix. You pay their calculated cost for everything they have regardless of what you watch.
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Bad comparison.
Netflix is $7-12 a month.
No one even comes close to the content Netflix has at that price.
Sure the movies are C+ B- at best overall, But HD and 4K available, and a ton of other programs from across the board.
From multiple networks.
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The current price is meaningless. Tv use to be free, now we are discussing how expensive it is. The relevancy is there as you don't watch all their content, or anywhere near half it, why should you have to pay for it? The point is do not underestimate the stupidity of the American consumer. They want what they want at the price they are willing to pay, and until we reach budgeting or accounting or something close to that in High school as a requirement, high prices for WANTS will continue and will continue to rise. Knock out tv competition and you will be paying top dollar for Netflix as well. The channel and content owners will demand more from Netflix. Right now it is not a serious enough threat to require it but almost was...
It's not a failed idea. It may not work for the traditional providers but iTunes, Amazon, and Vudu have been letting people buy the exact content they want for years and they all seem to be doing pretty well.
We'll probably never know if the traditional cable/satellite companies could adapt to that kind of business model because none of them have been willing to try it.
I still say the stupidity and ignorance of the consumer is what will destroy what could be great. People like shiny things, easy marketability. Do you honestly thing the content owners will allow Netflix and Hulu and all the others to survive after traditional tv is gone, without paying a premium for it? Do you really think the FCC won't step in and make some stupid regulations that encourage the prices to go right back up... Again... It's happened once, it will happen again. Same track different horse.
What is the consumer doing that is stupid and ignorant? Choosing to get their content through a different corporation than you?
I didn't say traditional TV will die. I think it will still be around for quite a while simply because it is so big now. Even if customers are gradually leaving it will take a very long time for it to collapse.
If traditional TV does collapse it will be because the market decided not to support it. Some people just don't put that much value on what the cable networks have to offer. If the industry does die someday and the content owners make your prediction true and don't allow Netflix and Hulu (Hulu is owned by TV networks) to survive where are they going to sell their content?
The prices may very well go up for Netflix and Hulu. The reason they are successful now is because they provide a ton of content for very little money. I'm still paying $7.99 for Netflix and at that price I don't mind being a long time subscriber even if don't watch content on Netflix every day. Many of the combos at Arby's cost that much.
They have a long ways to go before coming anywhere close to what people pay for cable. If it gets out of hand, the people who keep their subscriptions active month after month out of convenience like myself will end up canceling. People are willing to pay fast food combo prices for Netflix every month but I doubt many would be willing to pay $100. I haven't heard anyone claim they are willing to ride that ship out to the end no matter how much they charge. I certainly won't.
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1. Call/chat with dish and they will give you a credit.
2. See if you can watch the Mets through MLB.tv the service is adding single team options this season. NBA has single team options as well I beleive.
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2. See if you can watch the Mets through MLB.tv the service is adding single team options this season. NBA has single team options as well I beleive.
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You can bet when Sat/cable go belly up (still a while off I think), the price of Netflix, Hulu, Roku, Apple TV, Network streaming, et al, will start heading north and there will be no alternative at that point except to give it up or at least cut back. Which is what many of us rural customers with 3 MB DSL or less will have to do, go without. Maybe we'll be better off. Lesser viewed channels will go away unless they get swallowed into Netflix or Hulu. Hulu is owned by the networks so you know that will be one of the first to start raising prices.
4 years and you STILL are with Dish? You have the patience of a saint.
Sorry to tell you this....Based on all info seen here on satelliteguys.us and other places, the bridges between Dish and the three NY RSN's have been burned and demolished. The scrap carted away...
BTW, read this.....http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/2/...details-extra-innings-mlb-tv-packages-cheaper..
I think this also applies to those with Dish as well. I would imagine that since Dish which offered MLB EI last season, may do so for 2016 but has not not as of yet signed a deal. Dish has a habit of these 11th hour signings.
So. while you will not be able to see the Mets ( or as Keith Hernandez laughlingly refers to them as "The Metsies") on Dish, you may be able to see them on MLB.tv..and if you have a half decent internet connection, you'll be pleased with the video quality.
Umm Penn State and U of Maryland are in the Big Ten.....
And your "thing" about NY NOT being a Big Ten state is splitting hairs.
Since NJ has no DMA of its own, it has to be claimed.....NY to the north. PA to the south....
The Dolans tried that crap with SportsChannel and MSG
Since they owned Cablevision it didn't matter to those of us that were in a Cablevision service area. However, the Dolans went to all of the then small cable companies in the NY Metro area and basically told them that if they wanted Sportchannel on their lineup, it had to be included as a lower tier channel. Since there was no other way to view the Mets, Devils, Nets, Cosmos( NASL) and some college sports, the other cable co's were over a barrel.
LO and behold, a couple years later, The parent company of MSG did the same thing, MSG went dark for a period of time before returning.
Then ESPN would see a lot fewer viewers. So what?...
The ONLY reason ESPN has so many sports properties in their stable is because of their unusual status and the fact that ESPN's owners have been successful at convincing the sports fan that he or she NEEDS ESPN....
Well at nearly 6 bucks a month, over 7 million customers ( ESPN's figures) have said "nope not paying it any more".
For me ESPN has become far too political. Fer too left wing political. I don't watch ANY of their programming. None of it. Every single show of theirs always touches on some political aspect. And ESPN loves to inject their editorial viewpoint.
And THAT is going to be their downfall. And not due to editorial bias. But because people watch sports to escape politics and the events of the day.
You can always buy the least expensive package from the incumbent cable co for baseball season?.
One thing, is having tv from the home land or not having it, a 'life changing' issue?
What do you mean by "locked into"..?
Didn't say they weren't either, PA is a Huge Big Ten state.
NY isn't .
Parts of PA get Big Ten Even Pike county PA which is a Different DMA the Wayne and Monroe.
NJ doesn't have a DMA.
I bet that's got alot to do with why they don't have anything.
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No kidding. You live that close to the state line?
Look, knowing the tax situation in MA, consider yourself fortunate that some overzealous boy scout doesn't take it upon himself to discover some obscure surveyor's error that moves the state line and places you in "Taxachusetts"..Tv just ain't that important.
And if you think my scenario above is far fetched....
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/...ower-or-just-all-wetdeadline-looms-in/132011/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/o...carolinas-fixed-their-blurred-lines.html?_r=0
Ok..Hang on a second....You don't like sports. That's fine. That does not give you license to advocate others be deprived( like hoping the NFL goes bankrupt) of something just because YOU don't like it.
You have an opinion. Others have theirs. I will thank you for leaving it right there...
Case closed.
There is a new deal based on the settlement of a class action lawsuit...
The charge for a single team subscription for the entire season is $84.95. NO blackouts. And the price for that cannot be increased by more than the standard COLA through the 2020 season.
I respectfully disagree.
I think the naysaying and sky will fall commentary regarding a la carte is much ado about some folks fear of change or straying from the status quo...
Its sort of why most people are fed up with congress, but they keep electing "their guy".....
