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HobeSoundDarryl
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The government just allowed one of the worst of them- Comcast- to buy NBC. We fully lost our government when corporations- like Comcast- were judicially deemed as people. Now you have really deep-pocketed faux people (with corporate agendas) able to compete head-to-head with individual (actual) people in terms of campaign contributions. As a result, the real people don't matter much anymore. The few get to heavily influence the government of the (faux) people.
True in part. If you use this trick you will have Hulu+ in your
TV but you won't have the ability to stream anything because of geographical restrictions, you need to circumvent it with a VPN service. I live in Colombia and I have an US account and I have Hulu+ in my TV but so far I can't stream... Since Colombia already have iTunes Store (finally) Im using a colombian account since and for tv series thirst I'm using other mmm, let's call it "method" 
The way it seems like you have to do it is this: OTA HD via antenna for your local stations, a Mac Mini hooked up to your TV for online content from the websites, such as CBS, FOX, etc and then your ATV or Roku for all the other stuff. Obviously it would be nice to have it all consolidated on one device, but since there is greed involved, it won't ever happen.
Oh please. There's all kinds of content.
But if you want some recommendations, I recently starting watching the old Highlander series again (Adrien Paul = awesome!) Also, that new show Raising Hope looks good. I saw the first episode and plan to go back and watch the others.
Colbert and Jon Stewart - always a blast.
I've never had time to watch Supernatural, but everyone tells me it is good, so I'll probably start watching it as well.
I have been watching the FREE version of Hulu on my computer for a while now, if I subscribe to Hulu Plus, does that give me access to more content online, or does it JUST allow me to watch content on my Phone, Apple TV, etc.?
It has pretty much every episode of every major network prime time show. It's available usually 24hours after the show airs. Netflix by comparison may or may not get a show- usually not. And it often gets them years after they are released.
If its not for you fine. But it's certainly a viable option for big TV watchers that are probably dishing out an extra 12.99 / mo just to have a TiVo to keep up with it all. If it lets you ditch TiVo, its a net profit. If you can ditch cable, even better.
Soon enough LTE and other services will compete with cable Internet too. The options are growing. Cable Internet isn't going to suddenly go up. They couldn't afford it.
um, comcast definitely works for HBOgo. I'm using my friends account on my ipad and he's comcast. you should look into that.
True in part. If you use this trick you will have Hulu+ in your
Try switching to a US account in Settings -> iTunes store. You then subscribe to HuluPlus on AppleTV using this US iTunes account. I'm in Canada and don't have any problem streaming.
More content. All episodes. Usually Hulu is the last 5. Hulu plus is generally ALL. More devices.
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Damn you're naive. If it ever happens, greed will be the reason it will happen. It's the reason everything happens.
Why do you go to work every day? You want to donate your services to the company? Oh, wait you wanna get paid?
Hmmm... ok. Thanks. I'm reading that there isn't much content in the Apps version of Hulu (Apple TV, iPhone, iPad), but if I can still get more online, it might be worth it.
Can anyone answer my question about AirPlaying Hulu on the Apple TV instead of using the APP? Does it work, or dies it somehow know you're trying to do that and won't let you?
Yes
Yes, I pay $80/month for Verizon Fios 25mbit here in the US, NOT including TV service, internet only, lol. If you want the TV service, you need to pay like $20/month for the DVR/cable box, plus like $12/month for each extra box for each TV, plus taxes and fees, which makes it way more.
They have been offering me 75mbit service lately for $10 more, calling it their "quantum" service, and I may go ahead with that, but don't really know why I NEED 75mbit, lol.
AppleTV shows why an actual apple tv wouldnt really work, at least as an world wide offer. theres just too much missing, all i got is YouTube on my AppleTV ...
but i guess it makes more sense in the US anyway because cable isnt really expensive here in germany. i pay 49 for Premium Deluxe Cable TV (complete) incl HD + 100mbit unlimited internet. therefore Netflix, Hulu Plus arent that much of a cheaper alternative
30mbit + cable tv complete is $199 in the US??? omfg
Yes, I pay $80/month for Verizon Fios 25mbit here in the US, NOT including TV service, internet only, lol. If you want the TV service, you need to pay like $20/month for the DVR/cable box, plus like $12/month for each extra box for each TV, plus taxes and fees, which makes it way more.
They have been offering me 75mbit service lately for $10 more, calling it their "quantum" service, and I may go ahead with that, but don't really know why I NEED 75mbit, lol.
The problem here in the US is that I would imagine over 90% of all household providers are cable companies and there often aren't any alternatives.
And no offense, but the US drives the television industry.
As for a la carte tv programming, I like the thought of it. The problem is it's just not that easy. Switching to an a la carte service changes the entire landscape of television and in the end we're likely to have even less content to choose from. Same goes for ads.
Awaiting apps on apple tv
Still awaiting apps on apple tv.
If you own one outside of the US, all those 'hulu' stuff is nice, but useless.
We need local apps...
Just open up the App Store for Apple TV.
Still awaiting apps on apple tv.
If you own one outside of the US, all those 'hulu' stuff is nice, but useless.
We need local apps...
Just open up the App Store for Apple TV.
The problem is that cable systems don't work like that, there's dozens of partnerships between networks that keep the smaller networks on the air (btw, HGTV isn't one of those, they do quite well). When broken down you pay a premium price for channels like ESPN and only a few cents for the no-name channels.
The big networks have deals and force the cable providers to include smaller networks with them if they want the premium content. Some networks would survive with content or networks a la carte but many wouldn't.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing, I don't think many of us would lose sleep if the Biography Channel or Wealth TV went off the air. Right now things just aren't set up to work that way.
Raising Hope is one of the funniest shows on tv
Just watched two movies with my Apple TV and Hulu Plus and haven't seen a commercial yet. Maybe Apple had some agreement with them? Anyone else noticing this????
Yeah, 've been [again] thinking about "cutting the cord", but we want to watch Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Justified, Mad Men, at least a few days close to the original airing, wouldn't even mind the commercials.
I sat down at looked at Netflix + Hulu Plus + OTA + iTunes + Amazon Prime [etc...]
Just misses the few shows we actually watch which are on the cable networks like you mentioned (AMC, FX)
At least DirecTV has Spongebob again
Already did and so far is not working. If someone have a neat trick well let me know!
Just watched two movies with my Apple TV and Hulu Plus and haven't seen a commercial yet. Maybe Apple had some agreement with them? Anyone else noticing this????
I don't think the majority of movies has commercials. Especially the Criterion Collection was 'highly advertised' as commercial free.
Probably some Crackle or TV movies might have commercials.
Need To Know: Report on U.S. Broadband $$$
U.S. HSI (high speed internet) service is $$$ rigged against end users. Check out the following PBS "Need To Know" investigation that aired back in May of 2011 re: U.S. broadband markets compared to other countries.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/video-high-fiber/9263/
U.S. HSI (high speed internet) service is $$$ rigged against end users. Check out the following PBS "Need To Know" investigation that aired back in May of 2011 re: U.S. broadband markets compared to other countries.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/video-high-fiber/9263/
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
That's right. Plus, the math wouldn't work like many here believe. It wouldn't be ((current cable bill)/(number of channels I get))*(number of channels I actually want to get)=(new much cheaper bill). For example, $100/200 channels = 50 cents per channel. I like 10 channels. So in al-a-carte world, my bill would be $5.
Instead, the channels that many of us really like would probably be priced at $10, $15, $20 each aiming to maintain the status quo of current revenue flows. In my example above, that means I can have the 200 channels for $100 or the 10 channels for $100. There is no scenario where the revenue stream gets to be cut by 90% or more and yet the people on the other end- the ones who make the shows we want to watch- will somehow be able to keep making them while receiving their cut of only <=10% of what they make now.
The "greedy middlemen" are not taking that much that we could all cut our bills to just $5 or $10/month and still get all the shows we all want to get. In such a scenario, we basically cast Apple as the new middleman and they'll certainly want theirs.
But it doesn't really matter. Al-a-carte would likely end up exactly as I describe it above: 200 channels for $100 or my 10 favorite channels for $100. To some degree, we already have al-a-carte and commercial-free now with the shows in the iTunes store. We just don't want to pay those steep prices. Instead, we want to use the fuzzy math outlined above to believe that we are paying for channels we don't even want instead of seeing it as a bunch of extra channels that come with the channels we actually want (I'm not even going to get into the fact that the commercials that run on those channels we never watch help subsidize the costs of some of the programming that we do watch). The "good" channels would come at a steep premium al-a-carte, much more than a $1 or $2/month per channel that is sometimes thrown around here.