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crimsonaudio said:
I’m giving Sling a chance again, but when Disney eventually comes knocking on their door, I’m done.

I low-key hate the leverage Disney has been allowed to acquire and at some point, avoiding giving them my money will likely mean not seeing the games.

C’est la vie…
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It is easy to hate Disney/ESPN -- their tab for college sports is all out of whack and they are hemorrhagng money. Google owns YTTV and has far more money than Disney. What we don't know is if Disney is sticking it to YTTV or just trying to make them pay what others pay.

Either way we know who are the losers.
 
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crimsonaudio said:
I’m giving Sling a chance again, but when Disney eventually comes knocking on their door, I’m done.

I low-key hate the leverage Disney has been allowed to acquire and at some point, avoiding giving them my money will likely mean not seeing the games.

C’est la vie…
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Exactly. It's only a matter of time until it's Sling's turn to be on the receiving end of the abuse from Disney. It's happened with every other service
 
If memory serves me right, last year when ESPN did this with DirecTV, the problem was ironed out in less than a week.

I did a free trial of YouTubeTV then just in case so I wouldn't miss the games, but before my "free week" expired, DirecTV and ESPN made up.

I suspect it'll happen this way with the fighting couple like last time.

I'm going to suffer through today by watching Fox, CBS and NBC.
 
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I'm doing the Fubo trial for today, but will go back to YouTubeTV as soon as they get this settled. I just don't see anything else that can compete overall and all of these live TV services are going to go through this sooner or later. Pick your poison.
 
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Just signed up for the 1 week free trial with fubo.tv.

I've added this graphic to the right sidebar. It takes you to fubo.tv signup and college football. TF may earn a commission if you subscribe to fubo.tv but it's what I've signed up as a trial and I will drop YTTV if this thing goes on very long. May do it anyway.

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The Ols said:
Cable TV not sounding so bad…full circle…
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With the cost of streaming services rising, cable is sounding better all the time. The original idea to cut the cable was genius for saving money. But streaming services have become a combination of broadcast networks and cable providers rolled into one and as such, charging premium prices.
 
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Padreruf said:
It is easy to hate Disney/ESPN -- their tab for college sports is all out of whack and they are hemorrhagng money. Google owns YTTV and has far more money than Disney. What we don't know is if Disney is sticking it to YTTV or just trying to make them pay what others pay.

Either way we know who are the losers.
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And you notice neither are giving out that information.

If I’m Disney, and the offer is fair, I’m releasing the details and putting the pressure on Google to have to answer their subscribers on why they can’t pony up what others are paying.
 
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bamaga said:
With the cost of streaming services rising, cable is sounding better all the time. The original idea to cut the cable was genius for saving money. But streaming services have become a combination of broadcast networks and cable providers rolled into one and as such, charging premium prices.
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Cable still can't compete with the streaming services, even with rising prices. Cable has the same problem and have fought similar battles many times. Satellite services too. Problem with cable and sat TV is you also can get tethered to their equipment, which often have their own exorbitant fees. With streaming services at least you can choose your own, many of which are quite inexpensive (although I'm a huge cheerleader for the Nvidia Shield Pro - awesome device).

This is all aggravating of course, but it wasn't that long ago that you have use PPV if you wanted to watch every Bama game - and not too much further back that even that wasn't possible. All that convenience comes with a price I'm afraid. Only real choices you have in the long run are either pay the piper or stay on a revolving carousel of switching services every so often to get the best promotional deal.

At least there are options now. Before it was local cable company, Dish/DirecTV, or antenna. Hard for me to get too worked up about it considering the history, and believe me I've tried it all - including rocking the HTPC with Windows Media Center (dead now) and a network cablecard tuner (HDHomerun).
 
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BamaNation said:
Just signed up for the 1 week free trial with fubo.tv.

I've added this graphic to the right sidebar. It takes you to fubo.tv signup and college football. TF may earn a commission if you subscribe to fubo.tv but it's what I've signed up as a trial and I will drop YTTV if this thing goes on very long. May do it anyway.

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Keep us posted please sir. This looks like a good temp option.
 
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If it's any consolation at all, the joke may be on them this week. One, Bama is on a bye, so that makes things a little more bearable. Two, from what I can tell, I don't think we are missing anything, as far as SEC games go this week. Texas is running Vandy right out of Austin and Georgia will, in all likelihood, drag Florida all up and down Jacksonville. I don't expect Oklahoma to give UcheaT much of a contest. If this thing can get ironed out by Saturday of next week, the timing will have worked out just right
 
Special K said:
Cable still can't compete with the streaming services, even with rising prices. Cable has the same problem and have fought similar battles many times. Satellite services too. Problem with cable and sat TV is you also can get tethered to their equipment, which often have their own exorbitant fees. With streaming services at least you can choose your own, many of which are quite inexpensive (although I'm a huge cheerleader for the Nvidia Shield Pro - awesome device).

This is all aggravating of course, but it wasn't that long ago that you have use PPV if you wanted to watch every Bama game - and not too much further back that even that wasn't possible. All that convenience comes with a price I'm afraid. Only real choices you have in the long run are either pay the piper or stay on a revolving carousel of switching services every so often to get the best promotional deal.

At least there are options now. Before it was local cable company, Dish/DirecTV, or antenna. Hard for me to get too worked up about it considering the history, and believe me I've tried it all - including rocking the HTPC with Windows Media Center (dead now) and a network cablecard tuner (HDHomerun).
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I don’t know, subscribe to Disney for ABC, ESPN, Paramount for CBS, and Peacock for NBC, and Fox for Fox, and you are paying about the same as a DirecTV stream except you have to open four apps instead of one. And DIRECTVstream now comes with free Hulu/Disney+. And soon , Disney will force everything into their app for $50/month with a subscription, that is what they are trying to do with Fox/Disney/ESPN.
Long gone are the days of $6.99/month streaming apps.

When I speak of cable. I’m not talking traditional hardline cable to your house, ATT DirectTV , Comcast or others don’t really push those anymore. When I cancelled ATT, they already forced me onto their streaming service long before that. And when I switched to comcast/xfinity for internet, their TV service offered was also a streaming service through their streaming box, not a traditional cable system so even the cable companies are getting away from traditional cable.
 
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Honestly... I have way too many streaming services...

But if you -

1) spend 20$ for a digital antenna as a one time expense

2) subscribe to one (maybe two) subscription service at a time and swap every 3-4 months to rotate content

3) have Amazon Prime in the background for one off purchases and movie rentals (family loves the office and parks and rec, when on sale for 5.99$ a season... I just bought them all... They love the reruns...)

4) and add some free ad supported apps like Pluto TV (streams all of the older Star Trek, SG1, etc.)

You can find yourself with more than enough content to keep you busy.

The big problem is going to be when streamers start demanding a 6-12 month commitment or they jack up the rates if you don't commit.
 
These networks will get wise to people dropping one service for another and then they will target whichever service is randomly next on their hit list
 
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