Th3 Core

...cable is dead.

>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."

> 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.

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.

...you don't know the right places to get the stream!

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/

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.)

>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.