The Core
Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on October 25, 2010, 10:25:58 PM
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...cable is dead.
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You wonder when bandwidth is really going to start being an issue. Between web TV, movies, gaming - does the US currently have the pipes for growth?
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>bandwidth
Time Warner seems to be coming to the realization that they'd better get their butt in gear if they want to stay in the "commodity utility" business. They're burying a lot of fiber.
They are also scratching around trying to figure out a way to make some sort of content bundle that works with the new realities of the ala carte internet. You'll see some TW press releases over the past week about streaming ESPN.
>MNF
We've been off cable content delivery (except for the ultra-basic 'broadcast' package which was essentially free if bundled with broadband) for about a year now. The only hitch is sports, MNF in particular. Other NFL games are broadcast but MNF is locked away within ESPN. I could easily set it up to view it from the pirated streams but that's not what I want to do. Anyway, in searching around for a way to subscribe to the NFL for streaming I keep seeing post after that post that say "MNF is the only thing that keeps me from dropping cable."
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You say you're off cable, but are you watching other streaming sources? Netflix? Hulu? Other?
I ask because in Japan, although I've had 100mbps fiber to my house for the better part of this decade there still aren't any real mainstream streaming options. It may be because there's less Japanese content, or it could be the draconian entertainment industry policies, but I sometimes envy all the options you seem to have over there...minus the 'MNF'.
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> off cable content delivery (except for the ultra-basic 'broadcast' package which was essentially free if bundled with broadband
With the above, we still get the major broadcast networks delivered over cable rather than an antennae. I'd estimate about 15% of the viewing time is still from those networks, 80% netflix, and the remainder youtube/web.
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Now that Netflix has announced a streaming only option it may be time for me to set up a proxy or VPN and see how the streaming speeds are between the US and Japan.
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We're seeing a lot of "on demand tv" popping up. More and more TV stations are offering their stuff on a pay-for stream.
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>streaming speeds are between the US and Japan.
My son-in-law streamed everything to India for a year. Said it worked OK.
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...you don't know the right places to get the stream!
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Yeah, but if you throw in the kw 'legally' it cuts the serps down to zero in the US.
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This was the oldest netflix thread I found. Thought it could use a little update
http://consumerist.com/2013/04/12/report-more-people-are-watching-netflix-streaming-content-than-cable-networks/
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(5 years later)
>When Monday Night Football streams with a subscription...
And, it's done. As of 5 minutes ago, Louise is watching live-action streaming MNF using SlingTV subscription credentials on Roku's WatchESPN channel. Full content, not highlights or otherwise gutted/crippled.
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My hardware setup has changed since this thread was started. We no longer receive any content via cable, they are now broadband providers only. I added a huge antenna and dvr (per Brad's recommendation) so HD broadcasts are OTA.
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I'm soo close to cutting the cable as I'm also almost only using the provider for a connection. Paying way too much for the sucky tv part of the subscription.
Not quite there yet as the kids still watch a few channels (Disney, Nick etc.)
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>MNF
Amazing. Big Cable is going down to being dumb pipes.
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>Disney
Disney is giving away a stream of their sucky, kids' sitcom crap on roku, Ras. Is roku avail in DK? How about Amazon kids tablet in DK? That streams all that crap, I think.
>dumb pipes
I was thinking about this last night. At least they still have the dumb pipe business, some businesses were completely wiped out by tech disruption. One grumpy old man here at th3core, for instance, used to make a buck online by selling long distance telephone minutes.
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>SlingTV subscription
Nice alternative offering, I see this being huge and drawing competition.
For anything not live/sports, the slickest setup I've seen is still the seedbox streaming straight to xbmc/kodi.
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> One grumpy old man here at th3core, for instance, used to make a buck online by selling long distance telephone minutes.
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>And, it's done. As of 5 minutes ago, Louise is watching live-action streaming MNF using SlingTV subscription credentials on Roku's WatchESPN channel. Full content, not highlights or otherwise gutted/crippled.
I have the same set up. Got rid of cable a couple weeks ago, going with SlingTV on my Roku. ESPN being on there was the main selling point for me. Already have Netflix, might add Hulu soon.
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I stepped away from broadcast TV about eight years ago; relying on torrents, the BBC iPlayer and over the last two years, a paid subscription to MotoGP.
I currently run KooRaRoo on Windows as a DLNA media server, and have just set up two Amazon Fire TVs as clients, replacing two XBox 360s. The Amazon Android boxes are dirt cheap, tiny, silent and support live streaming apps, Netflix, the iPlayer and sideloaded Kodi/XBMC.
Using Kodi means I have far better video format and subtitle support than on the XBoxes. KooRaRoo was chosen to work around the XBox limitations, so I may not need it going forward.
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>SlingTV
It's far from perfect, Doc. I think the biggest issue is building a big enough pipe at their server end --but reddit likes to whine & b###h about them anyway.
G just announced Chromecast support
https://www.reddit.com/r/slingtv/comments/3mupkh/chromecast_support_announced_by_google/
https://www.reddit.com/r/cordcutters/comments/3muzhs/finally_sling_tv_is_coming_to_chromecast/
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>SlingTV
Yeah, it isn't perfect. The interface on Roku is pretty horrible and the mobile app is even worse. They will need to beef up their on demand selection to make up for the lack of DVR you get with cable too. They have some shows but not full catalogs. But it gets me 90% of the way there with about 20% of the cost of cable so that is a decent trade off in my mind.