rradina join:2000-08-08 Chesterfield, MO |
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Re: DemandIf you can pay $70/month for 1Gpbs with no caps, you can cut the cord (be that FIOS TV, cable or U-Verse) and use the savings over a typical TV + HSI subscription to pay for some streaming services.
I'd drop $70/month on a 1 Gbps link with no limits and cut the cord in a heartbeat. |
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elray join:2000-12-16 Santa Monica, CA |
elray
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2013-Feb-12 5:32 pm
Those streaming services don't provide the same content that is available on pay-tv. |
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rradina join:2000-08-08 Chesterfield, MO |
Who cares. I don't watch a lot of TV anyway and if I have to switch from time-filling crappy reality TV shows and old crappy movies, what's the difference? |
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elray join:2000-12-16 Santa Monica, CA |
elray
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2013-Feb-12 8:23 pm
The public cares. If you can't obtain equivalent services via streaming, cord-cutting ain't gonna happen much. |
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rradina join:2000-08-08 Chesterfield, MO |
rradina
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2013-Feb-13 10:40 am
Yeah, cord cutters aren't real and are of no concern: » Dish Boss Ergen: Cord Cutters Very Real [37] comments |
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AVD to elray
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2013-Feb-13 4:16 pm
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said by elray:Those streaming services don't provide the same content that is available on pay-tv. you'd be surprised what is legally available. |
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elray join:2000-12-16 Santa Monica, CA |
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Indeed. Cord-cutting simply isn't happening in any significant or measurable way.
Its the "cord nevers" (could you invent a more awkward term?), who may actually become relevant, as they grow and couple up and multiply and play house, and try their best to avoid buying double/triple-play. |
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My household is very happy with 30-some channels of free over-the-air broadcast TV, much of it in HD. Plus we have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Crackle.
Total cost of video content is under $10/month, and we get way more than everything we want to watch. I don't count the cost of Amazon Prime because we've been using it (for free Amazon.com shipping) since long before they included free streaming-- and we'd continue our Prime membership even without streaming. Crackle is free. |
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ChuckcZar to rradina
Anon
2013-Feb-15 12:09 pm
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The majority of people in Canada would pay at least triple that. Many would pay ten times that. |
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