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Apple Adds WatchESPN, HBO GO, Sky News, and More to Apple TV

caligomez said:
We all know cable companies will have to re organize their soon to be obsolete business model. However, that transition has to be met with baby steps, and HBO knows that better than anyone.
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What makes you think it's soon to be obsolete? Sure, they're going to have to adapt around these streaming services. But overall, what major change are they really going to have to make? I see all of this talk about "a la carte" pricing, but anyone who really thinks that kind of system would lead to lower costs is kidding themselves.
 
Can you watch the entire World Cup on WatchESPN? That would be great because our cable box just stopped working.
 
gmhag said:
I'm a cable cutter too but I hope everyone else stays with cable. Once cable companies start losing revenue on cable they will up the price on internet. In most places cable providers are the internet providers, right? You still have to pay for internet to stream....

I forsee tiered 100, 200, 300GB home internet plans just like cell phones in our future.
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Agree 100%. As long as they let us pay for what we want (al a carte) ill be fine with it
 
stampax said:
All nice - still such a strange device for apple = kind of like "we care a bit about this, but not that much". They could make it SO SO good if they wanted to as well!
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Like letting it make SMB/AFP/NFS mounts and playing local media? Like my Boxee Box has for several years? Like Roku even sorta does?
 
err404 said:
It took some arm twisting, but I was able to add HBO to my Verizon FiOS Internet only plan for $10 a month.
(Technically they had to add a 'SD local channels' package to my plan, but this actually lowered the total package cost of my plan by $15 and did not require a hardware rental. The net cost to add HBO was actually -$5)
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I am VERY interested in learning how you did this err404. I have Verizon FiOS Internet only and have absolutely no interest in adding a TV package. I tried to do what you did, but they said I needed a bigger package and a hardware rental.
 
gmanist1000 said:
NFL Sunday Ticket please!

Or does Directv still have exclusivity on that?
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For now, the agreement expires in a bit and might be open to all cable companies...

And for all those who say "wish i could get it without cable"...things like MLBTV, NBAtv all block your local team so if you live where the teams you like play you are out of luck..or going to a friends house, or spending money at a bar.
 
deannnnn said:
…a service like Netflix that generates relatively little for the networks that create the content, it's the content itself that will suffer.
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Your fee to Netflix and other services also serves to fund content creators. The only valid point to your post is that the net amount spent by consumers may be lower. On the flip side, your fee is more directly allocated to pay for content that you actually care about.
 
Everybody with DirecTV should be tweeting @DirecTVService and @DirecTV about this. Make some noise in public about not having HBOGO and WatchESPN on the AppleTV. Maybe it will get changed.
 
deannnnn said:
What people don't understand is that you being subscribed to cable TV is what funds the television shows we all love.

I know it feels like the cable companies are just being greedy and that all that money is just flowing into their pockets (and trust me, I hate my cable company as much as the next guy) but the reason cable bills are so high are because of affiliate fees and retransmission fees.

Your cable company pays for every single network it offers you, and the money that the cable company pays to those networks is how they can afford to make the shows that we all love. A common question is then, how come we have to pay for all these random channels that nobody cares about? Why can't we just pay for the major channels that we want? The answer is that the companies that sell these channels (Viacom, NBCUniversal, Disney, News Corp, etc.) own like 15 or more channels each, and they'll be like "okay, we'll sell you FX, but only if you also buy FUEL TV." So in the process of obtaining rights to the channels you actually want, your cable company is forced to also get all these other channels that you may be less interested in (it sounds evil, but there are actually significant benefits to the consumer in this).

The moral of the story is that all this money that you feel like is being wasted on cable, is actually funding some of the best shows that have ever been on TV. Despite all the talk in the media and online, cable subscriptions have NOT taken a significant hit (less than 1% of American cable customers have cut the cord). But if more and more people do become cord cutters and switch to a service like Netflix that generates relatively little for the networks that create the content, it's the content itself that will suffer.
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Stop with your logic...;)
 
This is great now only if Charter Communications my ISP/Cable fixed the internet issues we have at nights cord cutting would be a great idea but since cable companies do not care and only are in the money I pray Charter would get the **** out of my city soon.
 
I still can't get HBO Go to open. It just stays on a black screen after I click it and then eventually goes to my screen saver
 
MN7119 said:
"ESPN amd HBO are subscritpion only". Well, if I already pay for those channels on Dish, why would I care to have them on my Apple TV?:confused:
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ESPN also provides content on "ESPN3" which is not available on cable television. So your only option is to watch online or through an app like this. There are lots of college football and basketball that is shown on ESPN3.
 
zorinlynx said:
Right now, my cost increase to get HBO Go is around $60 + $9, or $70 a month. $60 for the cable subscription, $9 for HBO (or whatever it costs, this is an estimate)

There's no way in hell I'm going to pay that. However, I might be convinced to pay $9 a month just for HBO Go to watch stuff legitimately.
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Haha. Very funny. No way in the world HBO would charge customers $9 to get this without a cable subscription. They make so much off of fees through cable companies because many people subscribe that don't even watch HBO. Their cable/satellite deals are extremely lucrative because of this. If they ever offer it without a cable/satellite subscription, it will easily cost 3-5 times what they charge those companies.
 
deannnnn said:
What people don't understand is that you being subscribed to cable TV is what funds the television shows we all love.

The moral of the story is that all this money that you feel like is being wasted on cable, is actually funding some of the best shows that have ever been on TV. Despite all the talk in the media and online, cable subscriptions have NOT taken a significant hit (less than 1% of American cable customers have cut the cord). But if more and more people do become cord cutters and switch to a service like Netflix that generates relatively little for the networks that create the content, it's the content itself that will suffer.
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Sooooo Netflix pays nothing to the content creators? Purchased iTunes shows pay nothing to the creators?

What the networks get nothing from is torrent downloads. Keep everything under tight control for "legal" access and people will continue to download the shows for free. This is a replay of the music download arguments.
 
rmwebs said:
Why? If I'm not very much mistaken, all we got was Sky News - a channel nobody really sits and watches for more than 20 minutes at a time unless its the lobby of a hotel.

Still a glorified iTunes playback device for the UK, that is until you jailbreak it and put XBMC and Plex on it - it becomes a whole lot more useful then.
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Progress. We're getting there!

There is still unblockus if you're bored :)
 
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