Oso planning to go pro
Ditched cable in November and have mixed reviews.Positive: No wiring for TVs. As long as I have an outlet, I have a fully functioning TV. No rental cable boxes. High-speed internet and streaming (YouTubeTV), about 2/3rds of my Comcast bill. Oh, and I'll get the entire NFL package this fall. Also get the Palm Beach television stations. Still get almost every Marquette game (most important of all!). Also get the Milwaukee and Chicago TV station news, which I didn't get before.Negatives: No regional sports channels. Channels are not numbered for easy access. No MeTV. Fear this rate I pay now is the bottom of a very large valley soon to climb a mountain. By the time I add all the apps I want, I may end up paying more than I did for cable. Sticking to what I need for now.There is a convenience factor to cable that streaming can't match. My suspicion is that Comact will drop prices at some point and stream their service. In effect, cable-free cable. I would expect this would take the local regulatory requirement out of my television (YEAHHHH!) but will alow me to build the television package I want for what I would pay for cable -- or less!
dgies9156:I get my MeTv using a digital antenna. If you are in Vero you should be able to get Orlando station WESH (channel 2.2) for MeTV over the air this way.
You went from cable to streaming.
YouTubeTV is cable. It’s delivered differently but it’s cable in the sense that it offers users every 100+ networks plus your OTAs. The only reason select RSN’s aren’t offered is because they haven’t agreed to terms. Streaming is receiving networks on a one to one delivery: buying Peacock to get NBC Universal content, buying Paramount to get CBS content, etc.
Nonsense.
It's OK Wedgie, just admit you are old and don't understand this new fangled stuff.
You define "cable" not by the means of delivery after which it was named, i.e. cable, but by the content providers?'So, if I'm using my phone to watch a game ESPN, I'm watching cable TV? But if I'm watching another game on ABC, I'm watching over-the-air? And if I'm watching another show on the Roku Channel, I'm streaming?
Brother Fryboy:I'm "old", or so many in here would say, and I understand the technology well. We Boomers invented it!!!!!!Sometimes we get a little flustered but when we figure out what it does, we embrace it. Except for Ms. Dgies, but that's another story!
YouTubeTV has 6 million subscribers. Which means they are paying ESPN approximately $60,000,000 a month --- and over $700,000,000 a year.This is revenue that ESPN is getting from one source. This model is the exact opposite of streaming.
I can go on vacation and YTTV GOES WITH ME. Try that with cable!That is the difference between cable and streaming. One is hard wired. The other is portable over the web. The package or carriage fees have nothing to do with anything other than cost. Maybe Ziggy can give us his rocket surgeon take on this.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Don’t virtually all the cable networks offer streaming option now?
Jockey is correct in that YTTV is streaming by definition and thus is not cable. Lens is correct in that YTTV does everything cable does just with a different delivery method.The things yall get bent out of shape over is something
Don't think of it as Cable vs Streaming. Think of it as Linear vs. Digital. There is traditional linear TV (aka cable and broadcast), and streaming (aka SVOD or Subscription Video On-Demand) with on-demand being a key difference between YTTV and services like Max, Hulu, Paramount +, etc.At the end of the day, YTTV is traditional linear television in that you're watching TV in the traditional way with set schedules and commercial breaks that are exactly the same as what the viewer sees on cable. Yes it has the advantage of portability that traditional cable doesn't, so you can port all channels instead of having to authenticate individual channels through your traditional provider, but from a financial standpoint, the YTTV model is the same as cable and they compensate content companies the exact same way cable companies do, as LENS correctly points out.
Yes, I think everyone knows what Lens meant and I think everyone knows what Jockey met. Yet we still needed to have a fight over vocabulary.
I'll give it a try but we are 90+ miles from Orlando's television towers.
The things yall get bent out of shape over is something