• Sling TV is coming to rock cable companies
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[url]http://www.sling.com/[/url] [quote]LAS VEGAS -- Fewer people -- and particularly fewer young people -- want to pay for cable or satellite TV service. So Dish Network, which has been gradually shedding subscribers, is trying something a little different to acquire new customers: It's launching Sling TV, a cheaper Over-the-Top (OTT) Internet TV service, which starts at $20 and includes a slate of Disney and Turner Networks channels, among others. The service is scheduled to be available in the coming weeks -- no exact launch date was given -- on an impressive array of Internet-connected devices, including Xbox One , Roku media streamers, PCs, Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, and iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.[/quote] [quote]The $20 Sling TV base package includes ESPN, ESPN2, Disney Channel, ABC Family, Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, TNT, CNN, TBS, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and the "best of Internet video" with Maker Studios. Add-on packs with additional kids and news programming will be available for $5 each.[/quote] [url]http://www.cnet.com/news/dish-launches-20-sling-tv-streaming-video-service-with-channel-lineup-that-includes-espn-disney/[/url] [quote]“It is the launch of a whole new industry here,” Joseph Clayton, Dish’s chief executive, said in an interview. “We are innovators. We are disrupters. We don’t always make people happy because we challenge the status quo.”[/quote] [quote]“We are not hitting the 18- to 35-year-old market today; we just aren’t,” Mr. Clayton said, adding that he knows from experience with five children between the ages of 18 and 28. While the Sling TV service does not allow subscribers to choose specific networks, it offers a less expensive version of the typical cable bundle with 12 of some of the most popular cable networks available at the start. Those networks include ESPN, the Disney Channel, Food Network, HGTV, TNT, TBS and CNN. The Maker Studios network of YouTube stars will also be included. Not included are broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox.[/quote] [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/business/media/dish-network-announces-web-based-pay-tv-offering.html[/url] I'm really excited for this.
Does it just come over broadband, where it would be subject to caps? Either way, it really just sounds like more shitty channel bundling. Until I get a checklist of channels that I can choose and reject as I please, it's just the same old cable company shit in a shinier package.
I enjoy watching TV online through my cable provider. I can pull it up on another monitor and watch [url=http://www.charter.net/tv/3/landing/]TV[/url] basically commercial free(only network promos). My provider has 'no cap' on monthly/annual usage so I can stream full hd and I have no throttling problems.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;46873136]Does it just come over broadband, where it would be subject to caps? Either way, it really just sounds like more shitty channel bundling. Until I get a checklist of channels that I can choose and reject as I please, it's just the same old cable company shit in a shinier package.[/QUOTE] One step at a time. The media corps don't exactly turn on a dime. Interesting the see if IPTV can finally become viable though.
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