Sony's 'PlayStation Vue' Live Streaming TV Service Shutting Down January 30, 2020

[kumar muthaiah]

Explain how not having a particular "TV" service in your country is not respecting humans.

You will no understand! Anyway! This Earth belongs to everybody! Nobody owns anything! Even I don’t own my wife and my house or whatever asset I have ! We are renting Earth! Money is just paper! If then TV, Movies, etc., entertainments are shared by everyone! So If we convert that to current World context Netflix, Hulu, Sony, etc,, don’t have rights to block people from seeing shared content! All people can see all! they can charge money not a problem but provide content fully else don’t do business! Let whoever respect humans (Apple) do!
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Those who work for profit alone cannot respect humans and other beings
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We country people are not beggars to have only partial entertainment! Give full else leave! Why they differentiate peoples in different countries! Even if my country put restrictions try to convince us else don’t provide! There is no full happiness in their product! Our happiness is important for our daily life! So we cannot spoil our happiness for those partial content products! Provide quality product else leave
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I’m saying Apple TV plus may be a good option that respect all peoples in the world!

 

[Misuteri]

I sold TV advertising for 10 years and quit when the internet was still making that screech and meant AOL. I have to tell you I have no idea how your local stations are making a dime. Sure, they finally got cable companies to start charging you for their service instead of stealing it for you then charging you for them to steal it but.... who watches linear TV for anything but sports or breaking news? I’m around kids all the time, teenage and younger, that cry when a move goes off Netflix or Hulu not understanding that not everything is available all the time just because.

I don’t think the cable bundle is ever going to come back as a streaming bundle. It’s going to be like the Columbia Record Club, the dustbin of marketing and distribution of a bygone era.

There’s no way that 10 streaming services are going to survive. Sony was probably very astute pulling the plug before any substantial losses (Do we know if it ever even broke even?) I’m kind of sad about it as the more “Cable replacement” streaming choices out there the better it was for the consumer. I have the feeling it’s just going to come down to YouTube because they have the pockets and Hulu/Disney/Disney+ because they own everything under the sun.

Your cable company as you know it is going to become the internet company then bankrupt as well when wired delivery becomes as obsolete as a rumble seat or buggy whip.

Who’s left after that? Pron Hub will buy the world.

 

[2010mini]

It’s a direct competitor to Apple, in that case why has this site reported on new Google and Amazon product launches before? And before Apple TV was ever announced for the Fire TV.

Nvidia shield’s market is really not that big. Yes spec wise it is light years ahead of the ATV. But it has a really small market share amongst streamers. Why would MR waste time on that?

 

[mlovergaard]

After much reading and testing here is our (mostly) spouse-approved setup:

OTA antenna, installed by DirectTV ($149, has nothing to do with their sat service) connected to AirTV box to stream to our 4 TVs. Sling often has specials for AirTV.
Sling Blue + Sports Extra for regional sports ($35/month) - Sling guide includes our OTA channels, so pretty easy to navigate/flag favorites.
For ESPN, my mother-in-law's Comcast login on the ESPN app (or add Sling Orange for $15 additional)
Roku Streaming Stick+ added to TVs without built-in Roku interface. Apple TV's Sling app doesn't integrate the AirTV OTA channels so I prefer Roku.

Thanks for this info I had Sling TV in the past when I lived in Europe, but switched back to PS Vue when I moved to NYC, but will go back to Sling TV I think.

Also looked at FuboTV but not sure if that is better or worse than Sling TV.

 

[apolloa]

Nvidia shield’s market is really not that big. Yes spec wise it is light years ahead of the ATV. But it has a really small market share amongst streamers. Why would MR waste time on that?

Because they waste time on ANYTHING Google ever launches and they have a small market too.

 

[jpmack]

Thanks for this info I had Sling TV in the past when I lived in Europe, but switched back to PS Vue when I moved to NYC, but will go back to Sling TV I think.

Also looked at FuboTV but not sure if that is better or worse than Sling TV.

I haven't tried FuboTV, the $60/month price is significantly higher, though it includes some local broadcast channels (which I don't need - have OTA antenna) and puts them in a similar category as YouTube TV and Hulu Live TV.

Base your decision on who offers the channels you want, here is a good guide:

YouTube TV vs. Hulu Live vs. DirecTV and More

Let us help you compare which platforms carry the live channels you want.

www.cnet.com

And try them out! Nobody requires a contract, cancel when you want, and you can try most for free period. The user interfaces are significantly different and that might affect your decision.