Rumor: Apple to launch a streaming TV service this fall

[wickedplayer494]

[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/17/us-apple-tv-idUSKBN0MD06U20150317[/url]

[quote=Reuters]Apple Inc is in talks with programmers to offer a slimmed-down bundle of TV networks this fall, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

The service would have about 25 channels, anchored by broadcasters such as ABC, CBS and Fox, and be available across all devices powered by Apple's iOS operating system, including iPhones, iPads and Apple TV set-top boxes, the newspaper said.

Apple has been talking to Walt Disney Co, CBS Corp, and Twenty-First Century Fox Inc and other media companies to offer a "skinny" bundle with well-known channels like CBS, ESPN and FX, leaving out the many smaller networks in the standard cable TV package, the Journal said.[/quote]

[Dipper]

If they can get AMC on board and It's less than half of what I currently pay for tv I barely watch, then I'd definitely buy an apple tv.

[Missing User]

I still think SlingTV is going to mature into a great service... I'd be down for some more competition

[TheKingofBees]

Streaming tv, cars, smart watches. I dunno it seems like they're really going all over the place. I mean unless they can really change the playing field on all of these i don't think they will get many customers.

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That being said the streaming TV idea seems like the one with the best payoff for them

[Banhfunbags]

This is revolutionary!

[Th3applek1d]

With Apple lowering the price of Apple TV, and with the introduction of a good in-house streaming service, Apple could really do something good here.

[SIRIUS]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;47338381]This is revolutionary![/QUOTE]

They'll find a way to sell it as though it were

[FrostyZippo]

Don't they already do something like this with Apple TV? Or am I just not reading the article correctly?