That is something that will almost certainly change when Sunday Ticket moves to a streaming service. Those who have been getting it free will have to either pay or give up the package.
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As I (and a number of others) have already tried explaining to you, live sports have natural breaks in the action and are in no way similar to scripted programming. And no, ad-free tiers are not going away, because the streaming companies are not going to do anything that will cause them to lose paying customers.So your fine with ads? How about that?
The point is, once upon a time there was no ads, now there are. Things change. Just because YOU don't want it to happen, doesn't mean it won't. Just because it's NOT that way now, doesn't mean it won't be that way in the future. Again, I'm speculating, we all are, but I've seen time and time again, in places where there were no ads, now there are, and in most of those cases we weren't given a choice. Why? Because the money that comes from ads is HUGE. And no matter how much you pay to get no ads, it might still be worth it to forego that tier. Someone (maybe you) mentioned that you don't want to upset customers. Well, first, the majority of your customers don't appear to care about getting ads for many of these streamers, like Hulu. Second, as I said, a good portion of customers might buy the ad tier if the content they want to watch is still there (if for example you were a fan of Star Trek on P+ and suddenly there wasn't an ad free option, what would you do? Would you suck it up and watch the ads or, cut the service? I'd bet the former, knowing the Trekkies I know). So yea, you might p**s off a few customers. Maybe you are the exception who would refuse to pay anything to watch ads if there's a choice.
And lastly, if my speculation annoys you, simply stop responding and the discussion dies on the vine.
Both baseball and football (probably other sports as well) have been doing that for at least a couple of years. They shrink the picture for 30 seconds during a mound visit or other short break in the action and show an ad. That's my queue to hit the 30-second skip without missing any of the action. Or if I'm caught up on the game, I just hit the pause button while I get a cup of coffee, then hit the 30-second skip when I get back.
Yes, that has happened with a number of shows, like "Seal Team" and "Evil" on CBS. Instead of being canceled, they moved over to Paramount+ for additional seasons. For those who have insufficient bandwidth to stream, they can download episodes and watch them.
It does seem all but certain that NFLST will be exclusive to a streaming service after this season. That's not necessarily bad news for those of us who have been subscribing to the package on DirecTV, depending on what features the streaming service offers. It's even possible they could improve on what DirecTV offers. Those who don't have adequate Internet service should probably look into options like the Starlink service that was mentioned earlier in this thread.
Pricing is likely to be in line with what DirecTV has been charging. They raised the price almost every year until it got close to $300, where it has been for the last four years. DirecTV's market research probably showed that subscriptions would drop at $300 or above.
Probably about the same as now - i.e., a little under $300. But if don't plan to subscribe, it shouldn't matter to you what it costs.
If you have an older TV, all you need is a streaming device like a Roku, but I imagine you already know that.
Yeah, it's pretty rare to have to re-enter credentials.
Just curious - what NFL team(s) do you follow? I seem to recall you follow a bunch of MLB teams.
As i said, just curious.
That's okay, I just wondered which teams you were following. I follow out-of-market teams as well - the Cardinals in baseball and the Rams in football. I also watch the Chiefs and Falcons games when they don't conflict. I signed up with DirecTV back in 2003 so I could watch the Rams games and I haven't missed a game since then. I like watching on the DVR, but I'm also okay with streaming as long as it has the same functionality - i.e, being able to watch multiple games at once without missing anything.
Scheduling games outside of the Sunday afternoon timeslots has little effect on NFLST. It just gives fans the opportunity to watch more games.
Not really. There are more games than ever on competing services, but the NFL will be able to sell the package for twice what they received on the previous contract.
Has no effect on the value of NFLST to subscribers, either. I've been a subscriber for almost 20 years. A Black Friday telecast just means there is one more game I'll be able to watch that week.
The only impact it has is to make additional games available to watch. There are as many as 13 games in the two Sunday timeslots, which is way more than anyone can watch. As a 20-year subscriber to NFLST, I can assure you that having an additional game available to watch on Black Friday is something I welcome. It certainly doesn't reduce the value I get from NFLST.
The "nationally telecast" games are available on NFLST in markets where the local station is carrying a different game.
An Amazon Prime subscription is needed, just like the Thursday night package. And yes, I would probably not like missing that game if I didn't have an Amazon Prime subscription.
Yes, that's great news about the TNF games on Amazon. DVR functionality similar to what can be done with an actual DVR. You can even set a season recording for the games. It's an encouraging sign for next year's NFLST.Interesting article about how Amazon will handle TNF games this year. This plays into some of the questions we all had about how a ST could be handled.
Amazon's 'Thursday Night Football' begins a new era of streaming for the NFL
Amazon is developing new broadcast technology for "Thursday Night Football" to win over fans while also preparing for initial frustration.www.cnbc.com
So there will be some sort of "DVR" functionality. I read another article that speaks to them trying to figure out latency issues, which is important especially with gamblers. This is something they are actively working on improving to the point where it will be no worse than Satellite. For those in this thread and others who were saying there's no way that Amazon or Apple could every accomplish these things, well as I said, they are absolutely looking at it and are aware of what users are looking for.
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