This is cloud TV.
You dont have to own the receiver or antenna. They give you access to them for $8 a month. You only get the free channels. This is going to change everything. This is what netflick should of done. This is the new network.
4G providers and internet providers will celebrate.
Cable and Satellite will go ala carte and allow you to pay $5 for local if thats all you want. Not forcing you to 250 channels of nothing then $5 for local.
Who watches weather or news channels anymore.
I guess I don’t get it.
I pick up 30+ channels with my indoor antenna. If I wanted to watch them on the go, I would plug in my Sling Box, but after awhile, I realized that I wasn’t that interested. When I traveled overseas it was great to watch the local news but now I can get most of that stuff directly from the internet.
Why would the cable companies go ala cart over this? Most people could pick up the locals with rabbit ears if they wanted to and they could watch it for free on mobile devices with a one time purchase of a Sling Box. The big fight is about the locals loosing their monopoly, can’t have somebody on the west coast getting an New York feed and watching blacked out games or games only provided on cable channels locally.
The Sling Box is cloud TV that has been around for a decade. The cable companies had a collective cow when it came out but it did not end up changing the industry.
Cable companies don’t want to go ala cart, it would cut into revinue. Media producers don’t want ala cart because they make a fortune bundling channels. If the media producers provided their programming ala cart, they couldn’t force the cable companies to buy low volume channels and the cable companies don’t want to force unbundling because there would be nothing preventing the media producers from providing their product directly to the consumer. Although they both claim the other is taking advantage of them, they are in a codependent relationship.
In the mean time, neither wants you buying your channels ala cart.