Three bundles? What/How would this work?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84104.html?google_editors_picks=true
It's important to pay attention to the innovative leaders in every industry -- the companies with new ideas that are transforming old technologies. It's not so long ago that Blockbuster was the leader in the video rental space. Not that much time has passed since Kodak was the leader in the camera space. Many of us have experienced the shift in music listening media from vinyl records to cassette tapes, CDs, and then downloadable digital files. Things often change very quickly. Pay TV is changing rapidly as well.
Three bundles? What/How would this work?They talked about creating three bundles of services using DirecTV -- for low, medium and heavy users.
First Bundle: Would Include ONLY the Regular Channels.Bedford11 said:Three bundles? What/How would this work?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84104.html?google_editors_picks=true
Why have a high base fee to add HBO when you can get HBO on it's own for about $15 /moragweed10 said:First Bundle: Would Include ONLY the Regular Channels.
"Three Packages", Basic, (20 Channels) $ 20.00 - Medium, (50 Channels) $ 30.00 - Full, (ALL Regular Channels). $ 40.00
ALL Packages would Include the NETWORKS, and some additional Channels. - ALL in HD. - NO Extra Charge for HD
Second Bundle: Would be ONLY SPORTS Channels. These could be Added to any ONE of the First Bundle Packages.
Example: A Sports Fan could order "ONLY the BASIC Package" (20 Channels) $ 20.00 and then ADD Any or ALL Sports Channels.
Third Bundle: The MOVIE CHANNELS, Same rules as Sports. A First Bundle Package, then ONE or More Movie Packages.
To Subscribe to a Pay TV Service, you would need at Least the "BASIC" Package. $ 20.00
You don't need any Base if you ONLY want to watch HBO Movies.JoeTheDragon said:Why have a high base fee to add HBO when you can get HBO on it's own for about $15 /mo
Yes! HBO original shows. Lots of them. And some of them are greatragweed10 said:You don't need any Base if you ONLY want to watch HBO Movies.
Do they have anything besides Movies ?
I meant anything besides Movies.thyname said:Yes! HBO original shows. Lots of them. And some of them are great
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Yes! Ditto. Vice News tonight every weekday at 7:30 PM for about 20 minutes.ragweed10 said:I meant anything besides Movies.
Any News, Weather, Regular Channels, etc.
You are correct, only difference some are paying up to 150 dollars plus for the current/past subscription services that we currently subscirbe to. With the new services such as DirectTV Now , SelectTV and the myriad of others to come, Most if not all channels will be a la cart very soon. Pay TV is changing rapidly.In reality you're just paying $2.99 to be lazy and have someone collect content on your behalf that you can already get now just by going to those station's websites and clicking on "Video"
The difference is that $150 subscription is giving you a lot more things that bogus services like SelectTV and Rabbit TV won't get you. The only actual channels you're getting are stuff that already streams online for free like shopping channels, religious channels, government channels and stuff that tend to pay providers for their place on a lineup instead of providers paying for them (i.e. Newsmax). You're not going to get live streams of the most popular channels and next day episodes of most network and cable programming, that requires provider authentication, or for network programming a subscription to Hulu or CBS All Access. Even with Hulu, their next day episodes of Monday Night Raw, one of the highest rated shows on cable, is a 90 minute edit of a show that usually runs well over 2 hours when you take out commercials. While to protect their TV deals, WWE Network doesn't post full episodes of Raw, SmackDown and Main Event until a month after they air.Bedford11 said:You are correct, only difference some are paying up to 150 dollars plus for the current/past subscription services that we currently subscirbe to.
Yeah...you keep believing that, I got a bridge to sell you. Actual legit OTT Services like Sling TV, DirecTV Now and PS Vue are NOT offering A La Cart services at all. (I already saw the details about DirecTV Now, and nearly every statement you made about the service in other threads is flat out wrong, for one thing only mobile phone streaming will be cap exempt on AT&T wireless for postpaid subscribers, it's not cap exempt from U-Verse internet or the future fixed wireless internet you keep on overhyping as something more than what it will actually be, and many articles took a statement about the starting price of their lowest tier and how many channels they'll offer overall to assume that you get that many channels at that price) They're just offering slightly cheaper versions of tiers you can get with regular providers, cheaper because they don't have to maintain a supply of settop boxes, an installer network or pay regulatory fees, and are missing a lot of content and come with a lot of restrictions on what you can watch and where. (i.e. certain channels are in home only, some content like NFL cannot be viewed on mobile phones, other channels have replacement programming because someone else has the streaming rights to 3rd party shows and movies that they or their parent company didn't produce, etc) PS Vue has a cloud DVR that only keeps content for 30 days, while DirecTV Now won't be offering any DVR features at all and instead will be relying on VOD and 72 hour rewind. Heck, with Sling TV you need to subscribe to both their Orange and Blue services if you want ESPN and FS1, and many popular channels aren't offered at all, even though their more niche sister channels are. The only reason why so many niche channels are less than 50 cents is because they are being subsidized by their more popular sister stations. As stand-alone, they won't keep that low price, the operation costs will just be spread out to all of them.With the new services such as DirectTV Now , SelectTV and the myriad of others to come,
Most if not all channels will be a la cart very soon. Pay TV is changing rapidly.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/fcc-chairman-on-leadership-and-guarding-technologys-future/FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, serving as a reminder that industry incumbents whose businesses were threatened would try hard to impede progress.
The competition for cable-like online services is suddenly fierce. YouTube has been working for months on the paid live-TV streaming service, called Unplugged. Hulu LLC, which is co-owned by Fox, Disney, Comcast Corp. and Time Warner, will introduce its own service in the coming months, and Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. have explored the idea.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/at-t-to-offer-online-tv-service-for-35-a-month-test-a-la-cartethe company may experiment with "a la carte" programming, giving customers choice on what channels they pay to watch.
That 100-plus channel selection won't have "the junk nobody wants" and will touch some of the "third rails" of pay TV, like a la carte pricing, AT&T Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said at a conference last month.
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161112/business/161119797/If they lose at this, they can only blame themselves," he said. "The market is still wide open. You have to get up in people's purchase considerations. You are selling a $20 service to people paying $80. If you lose, shame on you."
You want to know what will not be part of DirecTV Now? The P/I channels. Like them or not, some of those P/I channels get more viewers than the two channels listed above combined. (Two channels that were only picked up by DirecTV as part of a lawsuit settlement brought by the station's owner) One person's "junk" is another person's treasure.Entertainment Studios, Inc., (www.es.tv) is proud to announce that its cable television networks COMEDY.TV and JUSTICECENTRAL.TV will be available on the new streaming service, DIRECTV NOW, when it launches later this month.
Unless they plan to announce tommorow that every pre-HD receiver will be replaced by a HD model and every 18 inch, Phase II and Phase III dish will be replaced by a slimline within the next month, it's not happening in 2016.Philip J. Goswitz, DirecTV's SVP for space and communications, told delegates at the recent Euroconsult conference in Paris that DirecTV were "huge proponents of [U-HDTV)". He explained that DirecTV expected to convert its current standard-definition Ku-band signals to U-HDTV by 2016.
He added that by 2016 all of its standard-def transmissions would have converted to HDTV, and using its local-into-local Ka-Band capacity. He said with standard-definition broadcasting ceasing the broadcaster would have 1 gigahertz of freed-up satellite spectrum available for use by U-HDTV, to a potential 20 million homes.
Oh, You're Getting Fries with That. And an Apple Pie, too.Among all major business models, the cable conglomerate is the only one that dictates what a customer must accept if they want to complete a transaction. The entire practice is madness.
This is one of ( if not THE key) the key features that will make or break the coming onslaught of Internet TV companies.Perhaps the best part of SelectTV comes down to ease of use. Thanks to the organization offered by SelectTV, content is easy to find. Content filters include genre, rating, year, network, recently added, and popularity. You can also choose between finding only free movies and shows or adding in premium services like Hulu, Sling TV, and Netflix.
Basically you're getting convenience from SelectTV. Rather than having to hunt down everything you can want to watch, it's placed in a guide for you to find and watch in one place. SelectTV boasts that they offer over 300,000 TV shows, 200,000 movies, and 5,000 live channels that offer sporting events and other television. This does not include viral videos, pay-per-view, games, and video-on-demand options, which are also available. Finally, they offer more than 50,000 radio stations, as well. All in one place. In a neat and tidy guide for your perusal.
Again, I already know the details of DirecTV Now, every article you quoted, especially the ones from Bloomberg, got it wrong, along with all the false conclusions you made about it when it comes to how it applies to AT&T's own internet services. All those "leaks" coming out in recent days like the 2 session limit were things I posted in other threads here about DirecTV Now over a month ago.Bedford11 said:You can bet that AT&T's DirectTV Now and all the others will be heading in this direction.
.The video entertainment marketplace is ripe for disruptive change that benefits consumers, not incumbent cable companies," wroteRobert Quinn, AT&T's policy chief, in a letter to the agency
I would love to take you up on this...Bedford11 said:Don't mean to throw you for another loop, but if you look out 4,5 6 years from now.
ALL TV will be VOD, Channels will be obsolete for the most part.
The middle man (i.e. the network) is the one who pays for the freaking productions. There's a reason why Kickstarter changed their policy to allow forced refunds directly from your account if you do not deliver. Nothing is for free. That's where they may go to FIND new talent, but that's NOT where they go to produce the content. i.e. Fred was found on YouTube, but his Nickelodeon show and movies were not produced at his home for free, it was produced in a studio in California. Even services like Pluto TV with fake channels have to make deals with "middle men" like Shout Factory for the bulk of the content they carry.A lot of the programming will come directly from producers, bypassing the middle man ( this is why the race is on for these guys to become the GO TO portal and cheap aggregator for entertainment)
This line alone...I don't see satellite service as speedy enough to keep up. (although there may be room for a premium service from sats)
Everything official that has come out about Google's potential TV Service says it's going to be another PS Vue, Sling, DirecTV Now or Hulu's upcoming service, it's not going to be some game changer that's going to offer a-la-carte.Google is about to release their new TV service (man, do they knowa thing or two about portals) this is only going to get more competitive and bring lower margins and lower cost TV to the masses.
Yes, bring on a world where instead of all you can eat from one place, you now need to pay $15+ each for services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, WWE Network, HBO Now, Crunchyroll, Seeso, Acorn and whatever else is next, and not even come close to the content you can get now since they can no longer rely on having other networks commission programs and have to cover the cost on their own and can no longer rely on back libraries of shows from other networks for the rest of their content. Instead of getting 200+ channels for $100, you now have to pay $10 each for 20 channels that were less than $1 when it was part of a tier, and all your favorite niche programming and channels are gone because it is no longer profitable to sell ads on anything but reality programming that airs on channels like TLC, MTV and Bravo and live sports.I say, bring it on.
Is this thing on? I already gave you details. It's not a-la-carte, and with a 2 session limit and no DVR it's not going to be a disrupter or replacement like Bloomberg's bogus articles claimed it to be. It's just going to be yet another alternative to PS Vue and Sling and something that might appeal to college dorm users who want something more than locals, a few cable channels and a bunch of instructional channels that most campus cable systems carry. Or someone renting a room as their first apartment with no say in the actual TV service they can get since the lease isn't in their name and are stuck with whatever the cable company has on clear QAM because the roomate doesn't want to pay for more than one box. It's just going to be a stepping stone to hopefully convince them to get a full blown DirecTV system for the full experience like the early information always said it would be.Bedford11 said:Tomorrows DirectTV Now release will bring more details hopefully.
In terms of pay-TV bundles, DirecTV Now might become the Toyota Camry of the industry - while the legacy satellite service looks more like a BMW.
Getting in front of cord-cutting: By using a big knife and fork to carve up pay TV, AT&T wants to make sure it's at the head of the table to nab consumers who want a better price/value equation - before its traditional video businesses start to contract. Yes, DirecTV Now will peel away higher-value satellite subscribers, but AT&T would rather cannibalize itself than let someone else do it.
https://variety.com/2016/tv/features/att-directv-now-pay-tv-1201918857/The implications are huge for all players in the sector. That includes DirecTV and its parent company, AT&T, which will likely see their combined 25.3 million video subscriber base cannibalized to some extent by practically tempting its own subs to shift to the cheaper package. The strategy demonstrates that the telco is willing to suffer short-term pain to establish a pole position in the rapidly changing over-the-top marketplace.
The advent of Internet streaming reduces the cost of entry for competition in pay-TV. As such, it's important for traditional companies such as DISH Network and Comcast to launch pre-emptive strikes with services such as Sling TV and Stream.
https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Dish-Lost-Another-116000-TV-Subscribers-Last-Quarter-138294Overall, replacing a $100-per-month customer with a $20-per-month customer isn't as terrible as it looks. It's certainly better than completely losing subscribers to competition, whether that's an old cable company or a new tech start-up.
Copied from your link:Bedford11 said:Numbers don't lie, just look at the last quarters for Dish and you will see whats happening.
https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Dish-Lost-Another-116000-TV-Subscribers-Last-Quarter-138294
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/29/sling-tv-is-cannibalizing-dish-network.aspx