When Monday Night Football streams with a subscription...

rcjordan · October 25, 2010, 10:25:58 PM

...cable is dead.

JamesR · October 26, 2010, 06:30:27 PM

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?

rcjordan · October 26, 2010, 07:12:05 PM

>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."

bill · October 27, 2010, 01:18:39 AM

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'.

rcjordan · October 27, 2010, 03:24:59 AM

> 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.

bill · October 27, 2010, 03:51:01 AM

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.

Rumbas · October 27, 2010, 09:00:57 AM

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.

rcjordan · October 27, 2010, 09:05:29 PM

>streaming speeds are between the US and Japan.

My son-in-law streamed everything to India for a year. Said it worked OK.

Kali · November 04, 2010, 01:26:22 AM

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

rcjordan · November 04, 2010, 02:27:19 AM

Yeah, but if you throw in the kw 'legally' it cuts the serps down to zero in the US.

rcjordan · April 13, 2013, 12:37:00 PM

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/

rcjordan · September 29, 2015, 12:32:49 AM

(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.

<added>
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.

Rumbas · September 29, 2015, 08:04:06 AM

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.)

Brad · September 29, 2015, 11:44:28 AM

>MNF

Amazing. Big Cable is going down to being dumb pipes.

rcjordan · September 29, 2015, 12:03:02 PM

>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.