Comcast and the B1G Network
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Cord cutting has turned out to be a giant scam. I'm about to pull my Fubo out of suspend, at about $105/month. The Cock is another $10 or so, Prime about $10, Max is $20, Disney+/Hulu is $10, and Netflix is $20.
So my cord cutting has raised my TV bill. I ditched Dish when it hit $135 and now pay $175 for a combo of streaming aervices. It is way more and better, but the idea that any TV watcher is going to get everything they want cheaply via streaming is a joke.
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Direct TV wireless with 4 apps covers me. Costs more of course but dtv wireless has all the networks including B1G
Eventually it will all consolidate again I assume
But fuck cable. I went direct TV in 1998
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It looks like the only game that could even impact this (and that's assuming that a deal doesn't get done, because I doubt the B1G would just walk away from them) is the @ Indiana game. I can live with buying a youtube sub or dealing with one game.
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I’d argue that the TV watcher can get what they want and more with streaming. It’s the sports fan that’s getting fucked. Three of the big 3 tried to do a combined streaming channel for sports, that would’ve been as close to a monopoly as you could get, and Fubo stepped in and had it paused… for now.
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Jury is still out for me.
I was paying close to 400 hundy for internet & cable with fewer options for content before they bought Fios or whatever I had. That had to stop.
The thing is, it muddles the picture to add up your streaming services when you have them anyway, like I did. I am going to have Netflix, I am going to have Prime because we use Amazon, and the rest of dependent on whether I see one I want. I view them as a different thing because (1) I can focus on streaming services that provide the kind of content I want and (2) I can watch said content whenever the fuck I want. So it reduces surfing up and down the cable menu as an exercise for chumps.
Switching to YouTubeTV has, thus far, been a complete no brainer. $72 whatever a month gives me more TV than I will ever watch, and like I said, I was going to have my streaming content service either way. But even when you add it up, including the $60/mo retained from the old bill for cable, it's well south of what I was paying for shitty cable, which was shitty. A decent percentage of that is in taxes that apply to cable that don't show up (at least that I can see) with streaming.
My only reservation is sports season. I haven't been through a college football season with it yet. If need be, I could buy some sports package from some provider and I'm sure it would still be cheaper.
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If they don't sort this out after this season then [internet service of choice] + Prime + YouTubeTV + Peacock is probably the best way to go. HBO if they come back with actual good original content again.
But fuck Comcast for this. I had already upgraded my package for them in preparation for this season.
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Comcast sucks more cock than Kamala Harris
YouTubeTV is legit. No Pac12 was no bueno. But that’s how awful Larry Scott was - couldn’t close either DirectTV or YouTubeTV in his own backyard.
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streamseast and methstreams.
sound pretty fucked up but they legit.
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YouTube basic has:
CBSSportsnetwork
Four or five different B1G network options
FS1
FS2
ESPN
ESPN2
ESPNnews
ESPNU
TRU
TBS
TNT
WB
SEC
ACC
NBC
ABC
CBS
FOX
You don’t get all the gay ESPN+ shit so you will miss some B12 games you don’t want to watch and you don’t get Peacock, but you have 90% of college football covered and the NCAA basketball tourney 100% covered for $75.
Fuck Comcast -
TITTT.
