One other option, with the savings from cutting the “cord”, you buy an Apple TV for $70, get your HBO NOW account and watch on your big TV. Then, in 3-4 months, when it opens up to Roku, sell your Apple TV for $50 on the used market, costing you a net $20, while saving you far more in Direct TV payments.
Hmmmm…interesting.
I do not exist to be a source of money for Apple.
Then you don’t exist to be an HBO Now subscriber for the next three months.
My short-term plan, since I also have Roku, is to sign up for HBO NOW with my iPhone (helpfully provided by my employer) then plug my laptop into my HDTV to watch it online for the first three months.
And that’s really the issue. “Streaming exclusive” is going to be the new cable TV. And, of course, upgrades to the streaming devices every few years (IIRC, Roku 4K is coming out this year, Chromecast is reportedly getting a more powerful successor soon)
Ha!
:dubious:
It’s the content owners’ fault, eh? The ones who offered tons of service over free TV for decades supported by commercials, until the internet made commercials obsolete and allowed people to steal content without paying?
We’re living in a golden age of TV right now, but ever content owner is looking at a looming future in which their rapidly shrinking revenue stream is going to fall right off the table, meaning there won’t be enough income to produce the type of quality programs that, at the moment, are abundant.
Instead of blaming the content owners for the rapidly shrinking media landscape, what you should be concerned with, as a consumer of content, is making sure that they be able to maintain a revenue stream that is going to make it worthwhile to continue producing professional content, rather than turning everything into YouTube.
Hey, there’s some great stuff on YouTube. Today I saw a guy get knocked over by a giraffe.
Ha!