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Cable and satellite tv are losing piles of customers every day to streaming. Ultimately, don’t see how these companies make it.
It's a real concern. They are having trouble competing against both streaming and mainline cable. They can continue to raise rates in an attempt to make money, but that drives even more people away.
And for those of us with no option other than satellite, it's scary.
It's a real concern. They are having trouble competing against both streaming and mainline cable. They can continue to raise rates in an attempt to make money, but that drives even more people away.
And for those of us with no option other than satellite, it's scary.
Well obviously these Satellite companies depend on those of us that have no other options. Here in Ocala where I live I find this very strange. Some residents have Spectrum, Comcast, Cox for cable. Yet there is not even a half mile from me to their servicing areas. I see Spectrum advertise Tv for $44.95 per month Then in my area of Ocala these companies won't service. So my case Direct or Dish. The subdivision I live in offers only 3 Orlando channels and info channels. Nothing else. One of the Orlando channels left so only 2 now. So older people are stuck in this situation with Tv. Personally I think this is extremely cruel
There is something called "Streaming" which I do not understand which is another form to watch TV? Or how to do it. I am guessing it's more forms of subscriptions??
I am not sure if it is for local news but I am guessing it is for movies and pay per view events. Programs like Peacock, Amazon, Apple TV? I don't understand what these companies are for but you must pay $$$ to get their services which I guess are primarily movies???
I am used to having cable and able to view movie channels, history channels, fishing channels, automotive channels and local news and weather.
Also I notice they do not sell DVD players anymore. It is DVR's now.
Just like in cars they no longer have CD players or cassettes. It is flashdrives and Sirius satellite radio.
There is something called "Streaming" which I do not understand which is another form to watch TV? Or how to do it. I am guessing it's more forms of subscriptions??
I am not sure if it is for local news but I am guessing it is for movies and pay per view events. Programs like Peacock, Amazon, Apple TV? I don't understand what these companies are for but you must pay $$$ to get their services which I guess are primarily movies???
I am used to having cable and able to view movie channels, history channels, fishing channels, automotive channels and local news and weather.
Also I notice they do not sell DVD players anymore. It is DVR's now.
Just like in cars they no longer have CD players or cassettes. It is flashdrives and Sirius satellite radio.
Yes streaming is subscription services and one has to be careful with them. They are for TV shows and movies and such. They are not for local programming such as news. You get one streaming service then want another and on and on, it gets expensive fast. It's basically a racket. I had Acorn TV for about 8 months and canx it as I found I only wanted a few programs on it. I was careful not to subscribe to more as I could see where it would lead. Bigger and Bigger bills. The other thing with them at least in my case. I had to watch the programming on my laptop. That wasn't enjoyable at all. I could not find how to switch the program to the TV set. Maybe a certain type of TV is needed. I don't know. Either way I either watch this damn Direct TV, or I have no other way to watch TV in this area of Florida.
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Also I notice they do not sell DVD players anymore. It is DVR's now.
Just like in cars they no longer have CD players or cassettes. It is flashdrives and Sirius satellite radio.
You can still buy players. They're Blu-ray rather than DVD but it's still a disc player.
Cable and satellite tv are losing piles of customers every day to streaming. Ultimately, don’t see how these companies make it.
Not me. When my cable provided box of 10 years broke down, I bought a TIVO box and rented the required cable card from the cable company. After a year, I don't regret doing it.
It can be tough to buy a TV which isn't "smart" and doesn't include an array of streaming video clients built-in
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Originally Posted by astrohip
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Cable and satellite tv are losing piles of customers every day to streaming. Ultimately, don’t see how these companies make it.
It's a real concern. They are having trouble competing against both streaming and mainline cable. They can continue to raise rates in an attempt to make money, but that drives even more people away.
And for those of us with no option other than satellite, it's scary.
Starlink satellite Internet is content agnostic, and works wonderfully for streaming video, even 4K/UHD.
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Originally Posted by Jimrob1
Yes streaming is subscription services and one has to be careful with them. They are for TV shows and movies and such. They are not for local programming such as news. You get one streaming service then want another and on and on, it gets expensive fast. It's basically a racket. I had Acorn TV for about 8 months and canx it as I found I only wanted a few programs on it. I was careful not to subscribe to more as I could see where it would lead. Bigger and Bigger bills. The other thing with them at least in my case. I had to watch the programming on my laptop. That wasn't enjoyable at all. I could not find how to switch the program to the TV set.
With a dongle (FireTV, Chromecast) or a set top box (STB) like Roku, there are streaming apps which can play directly to any HDMI-capable TV including live news.
News channels via streaming to TV are generally free (they include ads).
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It can be tough to buy a TV which isn't "smart" and doesn't include an array of streaming video clients built-in
