Playstation Vue Price Increase

Yeah it's a big increase. Will have to consider other options.

Man, they're going to make it hard to not uncut.....

DTV choice package is $65/month for two years... plus an additional $25 off for having att cell service.. coming out to $40/month. Cutting the cord is no longer worth it for me.

ETA: You also get HBO included if you have AT&T cell service

I wouldn't mind a pay increase if they bothered to replace the Viacom channels they axed. I guess we will see another raise when PlayStation adds local channels to the lineup in the N.O. area.

Well this is no good

I'm just going to completely shift to SP Central IPTV

$45 for six months and basically every channel under the sun and picture quality is very comparable to Vue.

I had directv and left for PS Vue. Now considering DTnow but wondering how much they will raise the price once they get DVR

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Feel like I am getting sucked back into a cable business model.

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You are.

I've written about this here before, and the gist of it is the current crop of streaming services suffers from the same problem as cable packages: the channel bundle. The popular (read: expensive) channels want to be bundled with a bunch of cheap channels to hide their true cost via averaging, and the cheap channels want to be bundled with the popular ones to increase their reach. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement on their end, and the customer ultimately gets screwed.

The other big problem is the TV industry is a bizarro world where more competition leads to higher prices, rather than the other way around like it should. The reason is the streaming services, like the cable companies, are at the mercy of the content owners, because the content owners are the only source of their particular product. It's not like most products where you can choose an alternative. Each channel is its own collection of art that can't be found elsewhere. It's like an auction, where more bidders (in this case streaming services) drive prices higher.



So I think this is phase 1 of the TV revolution. The bundles will keep getting bigger, and the prices will keep creeping up until people start to realize that this is just the same old cable TV delivered a slightly different way. Then we'll have to go through the whole process of cutting this new cord again to bust the bundles. Then there may be another phase where the market pries individual shows away from the content owners to bust those "bundles".

It's not going to get better permanently until we can subscribe to individual shows a la carte at reasonable prices. Until then, expect the industry to keep gravitating toward the cable bundle model.

Here is the only article I've seen about it.

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Playstation Vue, one of the many streaming TV options available, and one that I personally have subscribed to for months, announced updates today to the service’s package lineup. Going forward, Playstation Vue has eliminated the Slim package lineup in favor of a more standardized nationwide line. That, unfortunately, means a price increase for customers thinking of signing up for a Slim package or who currently subscribe to one. The Slim packages used to be available to those in markets where Vue didn’t have access to live local channels (like Portland!). The packages were $10 cheaper, which made sense, since they lacked channel options of the non-Slim packages. But going forward from today, Playstation Vue is doing away with the $10 discount and the Slim lineup. That means all new customers will pay an increased price, even if they don’t get live local networks. It also means that current customers on Slim packages, will see an increase in 3 billing cycles.

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The non-Slim prices are not increasing and will be the only options nationwide. If you are on a non-Slim plan, you can continue on paying your current monthly price.

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Not as bad as the OP is making it out to be.

My access plan is staying the same.

Use an IPTV service that has NBA league pass