Will Television be a thing of the past ?

[YY1]

...and I'm not about to also pay for streaming audio.

 

[4spdragtop]

Depresses me when I see these threads and think how much $$ we spend.(satellite, 2 receivers, wifi, roku). Sports addict that Lori tolerates, so she gets "her" shows to watch too.
Next add-on to shop is a TV and receiver lol

 

[halfafish]

I ditched the cable 10 years ago, and don't miss it a bit. I use an on-air antenna if I want to watch something, but really I don't watch TV at all. Like if it's not the Broncos or Super Bowl, the TV sits in the corner, untouched for months at a time. Broadcast radio is pretty sad here, not a live DJ to be found. And every station plays their same 20 songs or so. I listen to a lot of CD's instead.

 

[72Duster440]

I wonder if people add up their subscription services and their internet bill or high data phone bill if they'd get close to what their cable bill was.

My cable bundle has land phone and internet.

Yeah, it's 200 bucks, but if I remove the phone it isn't any cheaper because it's not a bundle any more.

If I remove the phone and TV, it's still 80 bucks (could be more I haven't checked in a while), and once you start adding $10 and $20 a month streaming services, you get back to $200 pretty quick.

My cell phone is only $30 a month for 400 minutes, and I don't even come close.
Don't even know that the data speed or limit is because I almost never watch video on it.
...and my phone was only $99 in 2018.

All those commercials that claim they could save me 2 or 3 hundred a month are kind of funny to me.

We mainly watch HGTV, Discovery, PBS, Animal Planet, Motor Trend, Nat Geo, SyFy, History Channel, Weather Channel, and a few others that escape me right now including local sports, specifically hockey, which is difficult to find otherwise.

My wife has Amazon because she hips and also has the card, so we get that streaming free.

I'd like to see some things on other streaming, but I'd bet I'd get back to $200 or even more piecing all that together.

But I think the thing with that is, most people would still have those other services anyway. Even with cable, most people I know still have Amazon Prime and Netflix, but yeah, they do add up.

The channels you listed (except for Motortrend and PBS) are all part of the Discovery+ package they offer now, we had it for a while, I think it was $6 a month for ad free for 12 months or some promotion like that.

 

[MOPAROFFICIAL]

If it does.. we might become the show.
Social media live streaming.. groups going around and starting conflicts..for entertainment...pay per view street muggings and the rest...otherwise it's no diff than when satellite tv cam about...and nothing to give a nod to.

 

[YY1]

Discovery+ package offered by who? What price after introductory period?

PPV muggings- that sounds like a money maker.

How many subscribers needed to kick all the kardashian's asses?

What really peeves me is that new customers get deals but longtime customers get screwed.

 

[72Duster440]

Discovery+ package offered by who? What price after introductory period?

PPV muggings- that sounds like a money maker.

How many subscribers needed to kick all the kardashian's asses?

What really peeves me is that new customers get deals but longtime customers get screwed.

discovery+ | Stream 70,000+ Real-Life TV Episodes

It's through the Discovery Channel. I'm not sure what the price was after, we don't watch enough tv to keep it. We'll get a channel or app with their promotion, then binge whatever we wanted to watch then cancel and move on to the next one.

Edit: It appears to be $6.99 for the ad free, but I didn't read all of the fine print.

 

[loganscuda]

I’m sure soon you can bundle phone, internet, tv, insurance, electric and water

 

[YY1]

That's another thing.....

Creating accounts, and logging in.

WTF?

How many dozen of those do you have time for?

...not to mention cancelling, and establishing, then cancelling and reestablishing...for how many services?

Some providers are already wise to that and have clauses like one time per address, not family member.

 

[72Duster440]

We haven't ran into that issue yet, of trying to re-subscribe, but like I said, we barely watch tv. It might be once every two years we sign up for a channel.

The only one I keep full time is Disney+ for the kids and Motortrend for me.

 

[thesiren74]

Streaming only here.

 

[67Dart273]

I use an antenna for what little that is now worth. I NEVER (other than weather) watch the "big 3" main channels other than the independent/ alternate channels they put on, like ME TV. PBS is dead to me. I flip by there to check "how bad it really is" and usually, it's worse than I expected

I'm paying for internet anyway, so it costs me no more additional, other than "buy the box" to have a Roku box. I pay ZERO extra / monthy / fees on the Roku and have no trouble finding decent movies to watch.

 

[YY1]

I have a Roku box that I was going to give to my mother.

I found the voice to be lagging enough to be annoying.

..and that was at work, on a 1GB connection.

 

[67Dart273]

I have a Roku box that I was going to give to my mother.

I found the voice to be lagging enough to be annoying.

..and that was at work, on a 1GB connection.

No such problems here..............

 

[72Duster440]

Same, no issues with that here, we have 3 of them, all work perfectly.

 

[Bodyperson]

I like the Fire Stick interface better than the Ruko though I have not tried the Ruko in years.

 

[cosgig]

My day goes something like this…

wake up at 6, look through internet car sights in the “office” while having coffee

work till dark or close to it and take the dog for a walk before it’s too dark

relax and enjoy the fire stick, I like to watch different shows every day so I don’t get too bored with them

watch the local news at 10 to see the weather

repeat every day!

for music…I use my phone and Bluetooth speaker, listen to the 1000’s of songs I have downloaded, or listen to mixes of live versions of songs through YouTube. No radio, it broke in my truck about 2 years ago.

that’s it….I’m pretty boring!