Washington DC cable provider is dropping MASN July 1st.

[weams]

2 hours ago, atomic said:

Reddit mlb streams. 

Oh the illegal stuff. Sure. Things are always cheaper when you steal. I understand though. Many go that way. 

[atomic]

2 hours ago, SteveA said:

But that's the cable model.   Why do I have to pay for HGTV, which I never watch?   Or Lifetime?

Why do I have to pay for [that stupid cable news network whose politics are the exact opposite of mine]  when I can get all the news I want from [that great cable news network with all the brilliant reporters that I agree with all the time]?

 Now we all know the clock is ticking on the cable model.   But that's how it has always worked.   If your network provides enough value to some people to get those fans actively protesting or threatening to leave for another provider, you can extort the cable company to pay whatever you want them to and pass that cost along to ALL the customers, not just the ones that rattled the cage the most.

HGTV is very cheap so is Lifetime.  I think if all the channels charged as much as HGTV and lifetime cable would be very cheap. 

Of

[weams]

The only reason for cable TV is internet delivery and Live sport coverage. The only. 

[atomic]

58 minutes ago, weams said:

Oh the illegal stuff. Sure. Things are always cheaper when you steal. I understand though. Many go that way. 

It's illegal?  MASN should offer streaming.  They should sell stand-alone packages or at least be on Sling-TV or other streaming services..  I can watch the Capitals and Wizards on Sling TV.  Ravens are on free TV.  If you aren't willing to sell a product you can't be upset when people aren't buying it.  Anyway I am not watching the games. 

[atomic]

9 minutes ago, weams said:

The only reason for cable TV is internet delivery and Live sport coverage. The only. 

LOL. I don't even watch sports on TV.  We have Sling TV for Disney JR and Nick JR.  We have ESPN, ESPN 2 and the like  but I never watch it.  I had the Sports package when it was Hockey Season but canceled it when the season ended. 

[Can_of_corn]

3 minutes ago, weams said:

The only reason for cable TV is internet delivery and Live sport coverage. The only. 

You haven't met my father.

[VaBird1]

19 minutes ago, atomic said:

It's illegal?  MASN should offer streaming.  They should sell stand-alone packages or at least be on Sling-TV or other streaming services..  I can watch the Capitals and Wizards on Sling TV.  Ravens are on free TV.  If you aren't willing to sell a product you can't be upset when people aren't buying it.  Anyway I am not watching the games. 

You don’t watch Orioles games ?!?

[weams]

20 minutes ago, atomic said:

It's illegal?  MASN should offer streaming.  They should sell stand-alone packages or at least be on Sling-TV or other streaming services..  I can watch the Capitals and Wizards on Sling TV.  Ravens are on free TV.  If you aren't willing to sell a product you can't be upset when people aren't buying it.  Anyway I am not watching the games. 

Yes. It is theft. But it's ok. They don't prosecute you. Kinda like Napster.

[weams]

19 minutes ago, atomic said:

LOL. I don't even watch sports on TV.  We have Sling TV for Disney JR and Nick JR.  We have ESPN, ESPN 2 and the like  but I never watch it.  I had the Sports package when it was Hockey Season but canceled it when the season ended. 

It's ok. They will get rid of cable soon enough. 

[eddie83]

1 hour ago, atomic said:

It's illegal?  MASN should offer streaming.  They should sell stand-alone packages or at least be on Sling-TV or other streaming services..  I can watch the Capitals and Wizards on Sling TV.  Ravens are on free TV.  If you aren't willing to sell a product you can't be upset when people aren't buying it.  Anyway I am not watching the games. 

Speaking of the Ravens I have Directv and right now no Channel 13. Carriage dispute. Better be fixed by September. 

[atomic]

2 hours ago, weams said:

Yes. It is theft. But it's ok. They don't prosecute you. Kinda like Napster.

They sued people for sharing on  Napster.  When Napster first came up I was in my first job out of college in the fall of 1999 we were set up napster servers in our offices. We had T1 line linking us to the Internet and to our DC offices.  I was looking my co-workers Napster server and I saw he was using the whole T1 bandwidth I told him he might want to cut some of the bandwidth usage and I the next thing I heard was an announcement that the phone lines were down.   If you did something like that a few years later you would have been instantly fired but back then it was all new. 

I think I had something like 100,000 downloads from my server Thanksgiving holiday that year. I only turned my server on during the weekends. Not too many people had T1 Napster servers back then. 

Now you can stream every song in the world for $6.99 a month.  How things have changed.   

[atomic]

2 hours ago, weams said:

 It's ok. They will get rid of cable soon enough. 

I was reading some article about Disney on Ice a few years back and it said no one would pay $15 dollars for flavored ice for themselves but they don't think twice about paying for it for their kids.

I think Netflix will die before cable.  They are losing all the kids programming now that Disney is making their own streaming service.  It is just a matter of time.  Plus they losing NBC content and Marvel. They lost 120k subscribers last quarter in the US.  

I certainly wouldn't subscribe to Sling TV if I didn't have a kid.  

[billw76]

I dumped cable a few years ago because I couldn't justify paying $150 or so for the tv/internet bundle. I'm sure it's frowned upon by most but I purchase MLBTV, NFL Gamepass, and NBA League Pass and use a VPN to watch the O's, Redskins and Wizards.

I think at some point in the near future cable as we know it will die and most networks will offer their own stand alone streaming services. 

[weams]

 

[byrdz]

I'm surprised the cable is still a thing. Seems like something that would used in conjunction with tubed TV's and VHS recorders.