Streaming services content war is taking shape

williewilliejuan said:
It’s getting to the point where you need multiple services to get the range of content you want. It’s less convenient than just having cable/satellite and not much cheaper.
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Can't wait for someone to offer to bundle all the services together under one price.

It's the cable company, but more expensive. Great work, everyone!
 
dbldwn711 said:
Amazon recently announced that’s it’s deal to buy the MGM library of movies and TV shows for over 8B is now official. That means movie series like Rocky and James Bond will go to Amazon Prime. This move is to directly compete with Disney which recently purchased the Lucas Films and Marvel Studios. It’s also trying to compete with ATT which last year announced a merger with Warner Media and Discovery. That deal encompasses such channels as HBO, CNN and HGTV. That deal was approved last month by the US government. We will have to wait and see if the Amazon deal gets approved but it’s been approved in Europe.

IMO this will mean increased costs for consumers going forward bc all these libraries are now “locked up” in the hands of only a few companies. I’ve only recently started streaming stuff. I’m still using satelitte TV but that is probably going away on the residential side bc of the costs to run it. (Satellite TV will still be the only option commercially bc all the bars/taverns can’t get enough bandwidth to service all those TVs).

Which streaming services do you guys use and why?
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prime used to cover old school James Bond for years around thanksgiving. Then after that they would cost you. This year was different tho
 
dbldwn711 said:
I’m with ya. I’m rocking that game HARD! I’ve got a few different places that have differing accounts in them. I get around all sports blackouts. If a game is blacked out in Vegas I just switch receivers to an account out of a different time zone and there it is.

Every guy has a vise. For some it’s booze, gambling, dugs, woman, etc. For me it’s TV and more specially sports and movies. I have a 4 TV set up in my living room. (65’ on the bottom with 3 50’ TVs across the top). I watch multiple sporting events at once and maybe throw a movie on the bigger one. I can bounce the audio bw each TV.

As the years have gone on I use it less and less but still I’m hooked. Can’t go back to the way it was. Streaming would screw all that up bc of picture quality and access to content.
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I can’t handle streaming sports. Feels like watching NBA playoffs off a laptop feed circa 2005 in Europe. It’s not 2005 and I’m not in Europe.

We have more streaming services than I can even name(huge discounts from my BiL being DoD and we’re on his cell plan) but I can’t do it for sports. Utilized two screens off two boxes for the first round of the tourney, but your set up blows mine away. Lol

As of right now, I’m out on TNF this year. I like football on the radio, or a good excuse to go to the bar will be fine with me. Even though we have Prime.
 
Hank Kingsley said:
Cable mandatory. I love it's convenience. Gives me sports and also HBO/Crave.

Also have:

Netflix
Disney +
Prime
DAZN (for Euro soccer)
Sunday Ticket in season
And a 4K source for movies that are new.
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Tubi has a lot of old shows and it’s free.

I watched the entire run of Columbo on there when Covid first hit. Highly recommend.
 
I don't need to watch sports 24/7 like some folks. I also like other forms of entertainment and good movies.
 
broncosmitty said:
Tubi has a lot of old shows and it’s free.

I watched the entire run of Columbo on there when Covid first hit. Highly recommend.
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Are there ads accompanying those movies?
 
dbldwn711 said:
I have a 4 TV set up in my living room. (65’ on the bottom with 3 50’ TVs across the top). I watch multiple sporting events at once and maybe throw a movie on the bigger one. I can bounce the audio bw each TV.
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OH YEA?!?!?!

I got me a 7 screen setup and FOV is relative to them all being equal to 70" or more Pshhhhhh :p

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But it isnt in the Main living room or the great room got an 85" qled in the main livingroom and do a 70" android tv and 100" pj screen in the great room

so if im really hurtin to watch that much i just chill in the office :D
 
NU_FTW said:
OH YEA?!?!?!

I got me a 7 screen setup and FOV is relative to them all being equal to 70" or more Pshhhhhh :p

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But it isnt in the Main living room or the great room got an 85" qled in the main livingroom and do a 70" android tv and 100" pj screen in the great room

so if im really hurtin to watch that much i just chill in the office :D
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CornHub FTW!
 
Guy Incognito said:
I am still steamed that Locast got shut down.
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Don’t think I knew Locast.

My knowledge base of streaming services is basically whatever shows up on my Vizio.

Don’t watch Crackle, it just shuts off randomly.
 
broncosmitty said:
Don’t think I knew Locast.

My knowledge base of streaming services is basically whatever shows up on my Vizio.

Don’t watch Crackle, it just shuts off randomly.
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it operated in what was considered a legal grey area, it streamed local ota tv across the country to avoid blackouts en sech
 
NU_FTW said:
it operated in what was considered a legal grey area, it streamed local ota tv across the country to avoid blackouts en sech
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That woulda been pretty sweet!
 
dbldwn711 said:
Amazon recently announced that’s it’s deal to buy the MGM library of movies and TV shows for over 8B is now official. That means movie series like Rocky and James Bond will go to Amazon Prime. This move is to directly compete with Disney which recently purchased the Lucas Films and Marvel Studios. It’s also trying to compete with ATT which last year announced a merger with Warner Media and Discovery. That deal encompasses such channels as HBO, CNN and HGTV. That deal was approved last month by the US government. We will have to wait and see if the Amazon deal gets approved but it’s been approved in Europe.

IMO this will mean increased costs for consumers going forward bc all these libraries are now “locked up” in the hands of only a few companies. I’ve only recently started streaming stuff. I’m still using satelitte TV but that is probably going away on the residential side bc of the costs to run it. (Satellite TV will still be the only option commercially bc all the bars/taverns can’t get enough bandwidth to service all those TVs).

Which streaming services do you guys use and why?
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Netflix + Tubi + Filmrise, mostly. I have HBO Max and Disney plus on a 1-yr promotional thing, related to phones or something and I won't renew. Same as Hulu+.

Watching adds for Apple+, Peacock, CNN+ and most of the others, I'm really not that enthused. Amazon Prime does seem to have some interesting content, though. I've cut way back on premium channels, and now just have basic cable + whatever is necessary for hockey & cooking channels that we watch.
 
broncosmitty said:
That woulda been pretty sweet!
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its almost like what @dbldwn711 does for himself whether or not he's sharing the "extra sat receiver" with a friend and just not plugging it in so it cant be located (oh noez they charge like 5 more a month IIRC when you dont let them track you though that may have changed with people ditching landlines) but really no different than you saying hey i got DTV too lemme order an extra receiver for an additional 10 a month and you od the same now we can get locals for our respective area and avoid blackouts...
 
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