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re: Sling TV Releases Sports Package - $5 Per Month
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:21 pm to lynxcat
Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:21 pm to lynxcat
I think he was being sarcastic.
How so? They are companies that offered a service, where another company came and offered a different/better one. How is that not applicable to streaming sports content?
ETA: Let me ask you a simple question. 10 years from now do you honestly think that the only option for watching sports will be through cable TV?
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Those are all completely different situations with very little similarities. Not applicable to this particular conversation at all.
How so? They are companies that offered a service, where another company came and offered a different/better one. How is that not applicable to streaming sports content?
ETA: Let me ask you a simple question. 10 years from now do you honestly think that the only option for watching sports will be through cable TV?
This post was edited on 2/9/15 at 1:26 pm
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Posted on 2/9/15 at 1:31 pm to rintintin
Because those are new companies who offered the same thing in a more convenient way.
They weren't selling movies or books at a cheaper cost.
ESPN and other networks are the content providers. They are like the movie or book companies. They are making too much money to change. The cable and satellite companies are making too much money to change.
A new company can't just come along and offer ESPN and TNT and other networks for $15 or whatever on their own. They need ESPN and the other networks to be on board.
You know what this "Sling TV" is? It's Dish Network. Dish Network is trying to pick up some "cord cutters" who dropped them. Cord cutters are a very small minority, relatively speaking, but Dish saw an opportunity to cut into the business of other streaming services like Hulu.
This is Dish Network trying to reach every last customer they can... they aren't revamping the whole system. They are getting the few "cord cutters" plugged back in so that they can make some money off of them when they were previously unreachable.
They weren't selling movies or books at a cheaper cost.
ESPN and other networks are the content providers. They are like the movie or book companies. They are making too much money to change. The cable and satellite companies are making too much money to change.
A new company can't just come along and offer ESPN and TNT and other networks for $15 or whatever on their own. They need ESPN and the other networks to be on board.
You know what this "Sling TV" is? It's Dish Network. Dish Network is trying to pick up some "cord cutters" who dropped them. Cord cutters are a very small minority, relatively speaking, but Dish saw an opportunity to cut into the business of other streaming services like Hulu.
This is Dish Network trying to reach every last customer they can... they aren't revamping the whole system. They are getting the few "cord cutters" plugged back in so that they can make some money off of them when they were previously unreachable.
This post was edited on 2/9/15 at 1:34 pm
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