Playoff projection thread

[UNI88]

Negative.

How are those television channels not on TV?

If you're a cranky old fart who hates change and wishes he lived next door to the Cleavers and Donna Reed.

I'm guessing 89 only considers something as "on TV" if it is available to him through his cable package, streaming channels don't count as "TV". Of course if you follow that logic then maybe cable isn't really TV and the only things that should count are over-the-air channels.

[BDKJMU]

Negative.

How are those television channels not on TV?

Well, ESPN3 isn’t on “TV” At least not regular television. Its streamed. You can have a top tier television package with every sports channel in the world, but if you don’t have high speed internet access, you can’t watch it. Much less record it.

[BDKJMU]

How are those television channels not on TV?

If you're a cranky old fart who hates change and wishes he lived next door to the Cleavers and Donna Reed.

I'm guessing 89 only considers something as "on TV" if it is available to him through his cable package, streaming channels don't count as "TV". Of course if you follow that logic then maybe cable isn't really TV and the only things that should count are over-the-air channels.

I must be a cranky old fart then.
-You must like watching commercials. I refuse to watch them on TV. I can’t easily fast forward through them on a streaming game.
-With a 3+ hr televised game I can watch it in 1 hr+. I’m not sitting in front of my TV for 3-3.5 hrs watching a damn football game.
-I can’t record the streaming games.
-Can’t do the pause, rewind, fast forward, slo motion on the streaming games like I do on TV.

[89Hen]

How are those television channels not on TV?

If you're a cranky old fart who hates change and wishes he lived next door to the Cleavers and Donna Reed.

I'm guessing 89 only considers something as "on TV" if it is available to him through his cable package, streaming channels don't count as "TV". Of course if you follow that logic then maybe cable isn't really TV and the only things that should count are over-the-air channels.

Correct, except for the hyperbole at the end (and the first sentence, you seem FAR more irritable than I).

[Ibanez]

If you're a cranky old fart who hates change and wishes he lived next door to the Cleavers and Donna Reed.

I'm guessing 89 only considers something as "on TV" if it is available to him through his cable package, streaming channels don't count as "TV". Of course if you follow that logic then maybe cable isn't really TV and the only things that should count are over-the-air channels.

Correct, except for the hyperbole at the end (and the first sentence, you seem FAR more irritable than I).

TV is changing. Streaming services which provide the same experience and content as satellite or OTA is new wave television.


Embrace the change, Hen.

[UNI88]

How are those television channels not on TV?

Well, ESPN3 isn’t on “TV” At least not regular television. Its streamed. You can have a top tier television package with every sports channel in the world, but if you don’t have high speed internet access, you can’t watch it. Much less record it.

What is "regular" television? Cable television? Why? I would rather have high speed internet than cable.

I use Comcast for Internet only and get all of my channels through streaming or OTA. And I can record OTA television.

[UNI88]

If you're a cranky old fart who hates change and wishes he lived next door to the Cleavers and Donna Reed.

I'm guessing 89 only considers something as "on TV" if it is available to him through his cable package, streaming channels don't count as "TV". Of course if you follow that logic then maybe cable isn't really TV and the only things that should count are over-the-air channels.

Correct, except for the hyperbole at the end (and the first sentence, you seem FAR more irritable than I).

It's not hyperbole, streaming is becoming mainstream and at some point in the future people are going to look back at cable TV the way you look at OTA. The funny thing is that OTA is also (re)gaining viewers due to small, powerful antennas and DVRs that can receive and record the signals. You could probably get an antenna strong enough to pick up DC and Baltimore stations.

[89Hen]

It's not hyperbole, streaming is becoming mainstream and at some point in the future....

might be considered TV.

[UNI88]

It's not hyperbole, streaming is becoming mainstream and at some point in the future....

might be considered TV.

89 and BDK watching "TV"

[89Hen]

89 and BDK watching "TV"

Pretty good viewing on my Rockola. I get more than I can watch. Not going to pay for Disney, Apple, Hulu, ESPN+....

[UNI88]

89 and BDK watching "TV"

Pretty good viewing on my Rockola. I get more than I can watch. Not going to pay for Disney, Apple, Hulu, ESPN+....

I have YouTubeTV, NetFlix, Prime, Disney+ and ESPN+ and I'm paying less than I was for a Comcast Triple Play. Plus my kids can all watch and we're in 4 different locations that would require 4 separate cable subscriptions. I'm spending less money for better TV.

[89Hen]

Pretty good viewing on my Rockola. I get more than I can watch. Not going to pay for Disney, Apple, Hulu, ESPN+....

I have YouTubeTV, NetFlix, Prime, Disney+ and ESPN+ and I'm paying less than I was for a Comcast Triple Play. Plus my kids can all watch and we're in 4 different locations that would require 4 separate cable subscriptions. I'm spending less money for better TV.

Do you get things like Discovery, History, Smithsonian, HGTV...?

[UNI88]

I have YouTubeTV, NetFlix, Prime, Disney+ and ESPN+ and I'm paying less than I was for a Comcast Triple Play. Plus my kids can all watch and we're in 4 different locations that would require 4 separate cable subscriptions. I'm spending less money for better TV.

Do you get things like Discovery, History, Smithsonian, HGTV...?

I don't get History which is a sacrifice because I have to wait to watch Vikings and Knightfall. I don't know about Discovery or Smithsonian but I do get HGTV, Food and a number of other channels. I am more than happy waiting to watch my History shows when they're on Netflix or Prime in exchange for being able to watch the Mandalorian, UNI games on ESPN+, etc.

[89Hen]

89Henette got a wifi TV for her room when she was still living at home last year, but she got very few channels. It was fine for her because the content she had was mostly what she wanted. I could not survive on what she had.

[Ibanez]

I have YouTubeTV, NetFlix, Prime, Disney+ and ESPN+ and I'm paying less than I was for a Comcast Triple Play. Plus my kids can all watch and we're in 4 different locations that would require 4 separate cable subscriptions. I'm spending less money for better TV.

Do you get things like Discovery, History, Smithsonian, HGTV...?

With Netflix, Hulu, AT&T NOW and Prime, I get those

[Gil Dobie]

Do you get things like Discovery, History, Smithsonian, HGTV...?

With Netflix, Hulu, AT&T NOW and Prime, I get those

Actually stream my xfinity via Roku to addition TV's in the house. We also have Netflix, Prime and KOOL-TV (Bison games) and ESPN+

[89Hen]

With Netflix, Hulu, AT&T NOW and Prime, I get those

Actually stream my xfinity via Roku to addition TV's in the house. We also have Netflix, Prime and KOOL-TV (Bison games) and ESPN+

Too much work. You guys are keeping track of half a dozen services.

[BDKJMU]

Do you get things like Discovery, History, Smithsonian, HGTV...?

I don't get History which is a sacrifice because I have to wait to watch Vikings and Knightfall. I don't know about Discovery or Smithsonian but I do get HGTV, Food and a number of other channels. I am more than happy waiting to watch my History shows when they're on Netflix or Prime in exchange for being able to watch the Mandalorian, UNI games on ESPN+, etc.

3 of the channels I watch. Plus are probably others you don’t get (AHC, Military History, Nat Geo, AE are some off the top of my head) so your deal would’t work for me.

[BDKJMU]

Do you get things like Discovery, History, Smithsonian, HGTV...?

With Netflix, Hulu, AT&T NOW and Prime, I get those

Too much work. I want 1 service/1 bill/1 remote.

[BDKJMU]

Actually stream my xfinity via Roku to addition TV's in the house. We also have Netflix, Prime and KOOL-TV (Bison games) and ESPN+

Too much work. You guys are keeping track of half a dozen services.

Beat me to it..

[Ibanez]

With Netflix, Hulu, AT&T NOW and Prime, I get those

Too much work. I want 1 service/1 bill/1 remote.

I have 1 remote and everything is auto-pay.


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[Ibanez]

Actually stream my xfinity via Roku to addition TV's in the house. We also have Netflix, Prime and KOOL-TV (Bison games) and ESPN+

Too much work. You guys are keeping track of half a dozen services.

It’s not difficult at all.


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[UNI88]

Too much work. You guys are keeping track of half a dozen services.

Too much work. I want 1 service/1 bill/1 remote.

You two sound like the old farts bitching about there being too many channels when cable first became a big thing. You could do a Geico commercial about becoming your parents.

[Gil Dobie]

Too much work. You guys are keeping track of half a dozen services.

It’s not difficult at all.


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1 remote here too. Pretty simple for old farts like me.

[89Hen]

Too much work. You guys are keeping track of half a dozen services.

Too much work. I want 1 service/1 bill/1 remote.

You two sound like the old farts bitching about there being too many channels when cable first became a big thing. You could do a Geico commercial about becoming your parents.

There's some truth to that, but it's not unfounded.

When I first got married we had a phone bill (home line) and a cable bill. Total between the two was probably $70 a month. I now pay $270 to Xfinity for cable, internet and home phone (don't get me started on that one) and $270 to Sprint for four mobile phones with unlimited everything. That doesn't even start to get into XM, Spotify, Netflix, etc... I do feel bad for the younger generation that knows nothing but all this excess without people being any smarter.