So you cut the CORD? (no no no... not an OB case...I'm talking cable baby!)

[psychbender]

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Sorry but once again I didn’t read all the posts. My question is, can I get college sports (SEC football) in particular with a streaming device? I don’t live in the south btw.

Sling Orange ($15/month) will get you ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN 3, and the ACC network. Blue ($15) will get Fox Sports and NBC Sports. The added sorts package ($10) includes ESPNU, ESPN News, and the SEC network.

 

[Twiggidy]

Believe it or not. Some people can’t justify the $120 fee for amazon. I rarely watch prime video in the 10-11 years? It’s been offered. Remember the days it was only offered via pc with Microsoft silver light tech

And amazon isn’t cheap anymore. Especially with sales taxes collected and retail stores price matching amazon prices. I live within a 5-10 min radius of target/Best Buy/Walmart/pet smart/petco/walgreen/cvs etc

So I gotta order a lot of junk from amazon to justify the $120 annual fee.

It could be a product of the area I’m in but I justify the fee fast. Just Friday I needed a new camera battery and went to Best Buy and they didn’t have it. As I was walking out the door bought 2 on Amazon for half the price and they’ll be here Monday. Retail stores can be a real PITA around here but again that could be just a here thing

 

[Hoya11]

You're looking at all of this the wrong way.

Look at the URL line in your browser right now.

That HTTPS before the SDN address indicates that your connection to SDN is encrypted. Are you up to something on SDN? What are you hiding?

There's a reason that 99% of the WWW has migrated to default forced-HTTPS connections, and it has nothing to do with keeping credit card numbers hidden or hiding furry porn surfing habits.

It's simply that it is prudent for all communications to be private by DEFAULT. Some people don't value privacy. They can't go six minutes without posting something to Facebook or yelling "Hey GoogAlexaSiri" ... if you're one of them, OK, just use your VPN button when you're torrenting some movie or virus, but you should get rid of the notion that people who do value privacy are up to something.

I get it man. I value privacy too. I use my VPN always except when streaming. I just question why you need to have it directly on the router. If I wanted it for simultaneous VPN connections (which I personally don't need) I would just have the app on each device I want it on, and just turn it on and off.

I do Hulu Live instead of a 250/mo cable bill and have been very happy.

 

[deleted50478]

I get it man. I value privacy too. I use my VPN always except when streaming. I just question why you need to have it directly on the router. If I wanted it for simultaneous VPN connections (which I personally don't need) I would just have the app on each device I want it on, and just turn it on and off.

I do Hulu Live instead of a 250/mo cable bill and have been very happy.

he probably cheats at Fortnite

 

[chocomorsel]

Jeez, $250 for cable and internet? Is this the new norm? When I was paying $160 I thought it was too much.

 

[Hoya11]

Jeez, $250 for cable and internet? Is this the new norm? When I was paying $160 I thought it was too much.

starts as a good price why would i leave, give it a few years and where i am there is no other cable competition in town

 

[Twiggidy]

Jeez, $250 for cable and internet? Is this the new norm? When I was paying $160 I thought it was too much.

The more content Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu create the faster people will ditch cable. I only have cable for sports. Occasionally I’ll watch House Hunters Intl when I’m dreaming big or when new Top Gear comes out but other than that everything I like is on Netflix and Amazon.

 

[deleted643396]

The problem now is that desirable content is being fragmented across services, so you have to pay for so many different services to get the content you want. I tend to cycle services with Netflix and Amazon prime being my only constants. For example, I’ll resubscribe to Sling for college basketball and then cancel the day the tournament ends. I could probably trim the fat even more, but I use Netflix for those call weekends.

I do a monthly skim of my credit cards to catch any recurring subscriptions I may have forgotten about.

 

[DM27]

There is actually a slow uptrend in cable subscriptions that is correlating with the increase in streaming services. The theory is that it is a combination of overall less content per service across more services with no change in price, combined with a behavioral aversion to overwhelming amounts of choice. As a result, the cost of having "enough" streaming services to get your anticipated needs is slowly approaching that of a cable connection. However it comes with the paradoxical "too much choice" since on cable you largely just choose the channel and accept what is on it, rather than the channel AND what you want to watch on that channel.

 

[DrZzZz]

There is actually a slow uptrend in cable subscriptions that is correlating with the increase in streaming services. The theory is that it is a combination of overall less content per service across more services with no change in price, combined with a behavioral aversion to overwhelming amounts of choice. As a result, the cost of having "enough" streaming services to get your anticipated needs is slowly approaching that of a cable connection. However it comes with the paradoxical "too much choice" since on cable you largely just choose the channel and accept what is on it, rather than the channel AND what you want to watch on that channel.

This. I feel like the split into many services is going to hurt the streaming industry as a whole. It's just becoming more and more expensive to receive the content via streaming due to the multitude of services. And cable companies can always just increase the costs of internet service not attached to their cable service, right?

 

[deleted50478]

This. I feel like the split into many services is going to hurt the streaming industry as a whole. It's just becoming more and more expensive to receive the content via streaming due to the multitude of services. And cable companies can always just increase the costs of internet service not attached to their cable service, right?

I don’t know. My total cost for multiple services is less than half of what my cable costs were.

The only way I’d get cable again is if they start providing à la carte options. I only ever watched 10 channels but had to pay for 250 channels to get those 10. Cable companies clearly do their research and set up packages to screw you and push the bigger packages.

Even if the costs were equal, streaming services are better because they don’t have contracts to lock you in or equipment to hang on the side of your house, and they let you avoid doing business with monopolistic cable companies. Saving several hundred dollars a year is an added bonus.