I have cable TV even tough I pretty much never watch it. I don't want it, but to remove it is more expensive than to keep it. I don't have a good incentive to pay more to have more TV.
YouTube TV
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#202Nice... Only took them 11 years (http://red66.com/2006/04/google-media/)
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#203Former Aereo engineer here. First off, there are really two main reasons for someone not to have a cable subscription: 1. They don't care about the content 2. Price sensitivity At Aereo, we saw these sort of mix together to create hugely elastic demand. For a while, we offered a $1 "day pass" that would give you access to live TV for 24 hours at a time. During the Super Bowl and various award shows, we had crazy numb…
I see commercials constantly lately for SlingTV which starts around $20-35 a month so it seems like things are working so far.
I tried using slingtv and on top of the stream qustream issues, I realized that if I pay for a video service my tolerance for ads becomes super low. Too low to ever switch back to the traditional tv ad model
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#204Former Aereo engineer here. First off, there are really two main reasons for someone not to have a cable subscription: 1. They don't care about the content 2. Price sensitivity At Aereo, we saw these sort of mix together to create hugely elastic demand. For a while, we offered a $1 "day pass" that would give you access to live TV for 24 hours at a time. During the Super Bowl and various award shows, we had crazy numb…
I see commercials constantly lately for SlingTV which starts around $20-35 a month so it seems like things are working so far.
Happy customer of PlayStation Vue. At $29/mo compared to the $80+/mo I was paying for Cable, I think these services will be very disruptive to the traditional cable model.
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#205In light grey on the bottom of the page, for me: "SHOWTIME® available for extra monthly charge" Yup, this is going to be exactly like Cable television, and it's no cheaper. No thank you, I cut that cord for a reason. Maybe if it had no ads? But I'm sure it'll be live television with the ads. There's no point.
>it's no cheaper.
It's $25/mo cheaper than a plan from xfinity that includes all those channels (probably around $35-40 cheaper after the 12 month "trial" period, but they don't list those prices on the landing page).
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
But we don't know that. All they've told us are the OTA channels.
Blog post lists more: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/02/finally-live-tv-made-...
Cool, you would think they would advertise a larger channel lineup on their landing page instead of the rather spartan "Stream ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC & more." - it certainly didn't make me think "oh, let's go look at the YouTube blog to find out what else they may be including" nor was there any guidance to check.
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#207"Unlimited cloud DVR" seems really pointless. Why not just save everything, as it airs, in a central archive that the users can browse at their leisure instead? It also seems to mean that you can't rewind channels you weren't watching, that you manually have to record stuff yourself. Really backwards of Google if my assumptions are correct. It seems weird that Google aren't able to create/negotiate something relevant…
Your comment made me realise what they're acheiving here.
They have created the perfect streaming version of the DVR for all those non-tech-savvy older generation who are only comfortable with what they already know and love.
Now, instead of learning about the joy of Netflix and Chromecast, they can just do everything they already do with their DVR, except now it's through YouTube!
Brilliant really, particularly since they're the only ones who would pay $35/month for that crap.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing most buyers, at least historically, prefer only dealing within specific regions. Are most cable channels offered in the usa operate internationally?
The way I understand it, historically geo restrictions originate from physical goods, and are usually driven by distributors, who want to reduce competition and control certain regions. I.e. in order to monopolize the market, they require those who produce some goods to restrict distribution through them only for that region, and in return they offer better pricing and assistance in that distribution. I.e. this basic…
I think it also has something to do with price discrimination. A seller can maximize profit if they can come closest to charging the maximum the buyers are willing to pay. So for goods where the cost to make a copy is negligible, such as media and books, the ideal pricing strategy is to sell the product at different prices to different markets, hence why you see versions of the same textbooks being sold for $10 in Asia when it's $200 in the USA.
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#209$35? What is this 1990?
The fundamental problem I think is that this is yet another offering of packaged channels, 90% of which I don't want. Okay, maybe not 90%, but in their initial channel offering I count at least 25 of the 46 channels I'm not even remotely interested in.
Once you drop sports, Spanish language content, kids content and some of the more useless news channels I'd be paying effectively paying $35/mo for local TV I can already get for free, USA, FX, Bravo, FX, Syfy and I guess...Youtube Red?
If I were to pay $1/mo for each channel I might watch, I might pay $4 or $5/mo for this.
Dump the live TV entirely, just put the shows up so I can binge watch the ones I want. The "cloud DVR" is a dumb gimmick, all the content is already sliced and diced and uploaded to some server somewhere anyway.
Ugh..this offering is probably only really of interest to sportsball enthusiasts who are desperate to cut the cord but can't.
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#210I don't think I'd personally use it as I have tv. However I can see it being useful for cord cutters. It would be nice to see some sort of bundling. Pay x amount, get youtube premium stuff, with movie rentals, and streaming tv with other google features etc such as google play/music. However have it broken up is a good option too. I think both options could be useful.