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Re: [TV] CRTC proceedings a la carte tv channels..NBA!!! UFC!! |
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NFL about $300 total to get everything up to the end of the regular season.
NASCAR $50 for Raceview
NHL GCL $200 at the new price
Sounds like a lot but worked out over the months of the sports various seasons it still comes out cheaper than a Rogers cable package to get (even close) to what I'm getting with this setup.
As to the GCL blackouts, the "Old" GCL offered audio feeds, dunno what the "New" GCL will do.
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So it looks like you are in for close to $50/month. The advantage is that you have more flexibility in that you can watch your content from more devices than just a TV, if that is useful for you. |
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It is, in fact I'm doing a radio broadcast tonight in my studio and streaming MNF to my iPhone while I'm broadcasting NefCanuck |
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You could use a dns server like unotelly or unblock us to get around the blackouts plus be able to watch the nfl playoffs |
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said by Mar16 :You could use a dns server like unotelly or unblock us to get around the blackouts plus be able to watch the nfl playoffs True I could but right now the setup I have works fine, the playoffs are still OTA (other than the one WC game that ESPN has, I don't now if CTV will pick that one up or pass it off to TSN) The interesting thing is the "NEW" Rogers GCL, sucks that they don't have the TSN out of market games (maybe as an archive after the broadcast?) NefCanuck |
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gwilki join:2012-06-29 Kanata, ON |
gwilki
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2014-Sep-18 3:06 pm
Before anyone gets too excited about being able to pick and pay for channels one at a time, keep in mind that the CRTC is not addressing the basic cable service. We will still have to pay for a basic package of programs that are all Canadian, including second language, native programming and parliamentary and legislature channels, even if we have no intention of ever watching them. The CRTC is looking at only the "premium" packages that add on to the basic. It's a start, but we are still forced to pay for a lot of crap. |
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Sounds like the price of basic is going up then. |
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rosenqui Premium Member join:2004-05-28 Kanata, ON |
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said by gwilki:Before anyone gets too excited about being able to pick and pay for channels one at a time, keep in mind that the CRTC is not addressing the basic cable service. Not exactly true... Several options are on the table for controlling the size & price of the entry-level package. See item #1 in their discussion document here: » www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archi ··· 3.htm#a1 |
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I can see where this is headed.
To recoup any losses incurred on Pic 'n Pay Rogers will demand HD Boxes be used/rented for even the most basic of packages. No more DTA50. Box rental fees will triple. There will be a service fee for each box, an added fee for multi TV households, a fee for adding or deleting a channel from your lineup and a blanket fee for receiving less than a set number of Pic 'n Pay channels. All this in addition to the basic subscriber package fee set out by the CRTC rules.
Knowing Rogers, they're hard at work crunching the numbers as we speak. This is just a golden opportunity for Rogers to turn Pic 'n Pay into a money trap the CRTC could never forsee.
It'll all be based on term contracts: $10 per channel per month or 3 for $20/month on 2 year term or 5 for $25 on a 3 year with the usual ECFs.
AND of course there'll also be the Pic 'n Pay channel cancellation fee, the channel upgrade fee, the HD feed fee and the selected channel listings fee etc. etc. etc.
Just one BIG cash grab for Rogers. |
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RLBL join:2012-11-26 Gloucester, ON |
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2014-Sep-19 7:59 am
I think so as well (in principal)... we have already seen it:
- CRTC mandates wireless plans must be lowered from 3year to 2year plans - Result: Rogers wireless plans go up in price, and potentially pay more for the subsidized phones.
The cost is what the cost is. We can argue the validity of dollar amount they have set - but once set, they are gonna get it one way or another. |
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Unless the CRTC refuses to subsidize the DTA, (They pay for them), the DTA can't go anywhere. However I don't think you could pic n play with a DTA.
Rogers will turn this into profitability.
I'm not going to doubt there are two plans in place to come out of this profitable.
And you forget the legacy bundle retirement fee. Cause changing the network to pick n play, will cost lots. |
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LSTA join:2010-11-25 North York, ON 1 edit |
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said by cepnot4me:Thing is, Rogers is saying that a station like HBO, at $18/month in a movies package, would be $18/month alone. As it basically pays for the other channels in the package to exist. If both Bell and Rogers charge the same, it will incentivize someone else to come in and charge less, perhaps HBO itself to gain more viewers, or Apple or Microsoft? And frankly, $18/mth for an online service with back catalogue would be tempting ... forget this "live channel" stuff, it's not convenient enough |
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said by elitefx:THE POINT IS, Rogers monthly bills have become so enormous, for some, that they've exceded UTILITY bill status. People could buy houses and cars with the cash they send monthly and yearly to Rogers. Huh. My Rogers/Fido bills have always exceeded my utility bills, even when the utilities in question charge $20/mth each for the privilege of being their customer, then start adding utility costs on top. That said, right now I pay $99 for Internet, $50 for 5GB/ultd cell, and maybe $17/mth for online services (Netflix, Crunchyroll, Funimation). I pay $0 for my TV. When Rogers sent me a notice saying I could pay $15/mth I think it was, with free box rental for basic cable, I said, what? That's twice what netflix costs, and basic just gives me what I can get with an antenna at higher quality. So I went out, bought an antenna, and never turn the TV on anyway, but at least it costs me $0/mth. |
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said by elitefx:It'll all be based on term contracts: $10 per channel per month or 3 for $20/month on 2 year term or 5 for $25 on a 3 year with the usual ECFs. I'm never signing contracts with Rogers unless the ECF is equal to what I'm saving AND I don't have to pay anything more than I would otherwise. (E.g. I'd have kept a contract for a new phone if I didn't have to change my plan to be $20 more with less data.) For cable TV and Internet, this basically translates to: I'm never signing contracts. And for cellphone ... they're so greedy the contracts never seem to work out in my favour. If I can't afford the phone off-contract, I can't afford the contract either, plain and simple. Nobody seems to think of contracts as the loans that they are... and underwhelming packages that nickel and dime you with overages and fees is the interest that they make money on. And people keep falling for it, until they learn the hard way (myself included). Frankly I'm not all that excited if I still have to pay for channels I can watch for free AND I need some kind of special hardware. I'd rather just watch streams via the Internet I already pay for. Here's hoping we see Spotify for TV in the next 2-3 years. |
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Two different things. Pennies a gig is the data delivery cost. That doesn't work in the HBO case, as it's the licensing cost that's the issue, not data delivery. |
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» www.cbc.ca/news/business ··· .2791568While this is a threat to Canadian Broadcasters, I fail to see how a consumer would lose in this if the US networks (like AMC and A/E) decided to forgo broadcasting over Canadian airwaves and instead streamed their content to Canadians over the internet. Sounds like the future to me.... |
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Exactly - and it is not like these channels show a lot of content that you can't get from places like Netflix. Over the last decade hasn't A&E's content consisted largely of reruns of stuff like CSI and Law and Order? |
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AsherN Premium Member join:2010-08-23 Thornhill, ON |
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It's all window dressing. Expect the same bundles to remain in place. Then small bundles will be added and the option to pick individual channels. And unless you watch very few channels, the pricing structure will come down to the status quo being the affordable option.
Unless the CRTC imposes a very low cost per channel. Which will never happen.
What we need is to be billed for what we watch. If I'm tuned for more than half the show time, I get billed for that show. In return, I have access to all the channels. |
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