CorruptDictator
I want a custom title, but I dont trust VintagePC
Where I live the only way to get 90% of the games is with cable since all the Twins stuff is on FoxSportsNorth.
My parents are FINALLY listening
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People get the service to watch out of market games not to get something they can see for free from local stations. I have a feeling though this will change in the coming years as online entertainment because the number one source of tv entertainment. The service may be worthless to you but you are not a sports fan so that is completely understandable, just like nail polish is worthless to me because I don't like painting my nails, but to others it's not worthless.
CorruptDictator
I want a custom title, but I dont trust VintagePC
When I want to get away from having cable tv it is worthless since all my gf watches is the Twins. that is the number one reason she does not want to give up cable.
Well yes it is worthless but it was not made a service because people want to give up cable tv it was made to give people the ability to watch out of market games at a fair price. Now if the service was created so that people did not have to own cable tv to watch their favorite team than your point is valid for everyone, right now your point is only valid for you because its not working the way "you" want it to.
CorruptDictator
I want a custom title, but I dont trust VintagePC
Of course that is my point, if you look back in this conversation the only reason i brought it up in the first place was because I was looking for an option to drop cable tv.
I was just giving you an explanation on why its like that is all
Remember these services were created before the hulus, before the nbc having all their shows online , etc. So I imagine in the coming years its going to change as people start ditching cable tv for more readily available online entertainment.
CorruptDictator
I want a custom title, but I dont trust VintagePC
I would switch to nothing but netflix/hulu etc in a heatbeat (just get a roku for the bedroom), but the baseball factor ruins everything.
Get this, we even still get a disc from netflix because she is taking her sweet ass time watching all of ER. Fuck discs.
Get this, we even still get a disc from netflix because she is taking her sweet ass time watching all of ER. Fuck discs.
lonesome killer
Banhammered
Hey, you leave my Storage Wars and Shipping Wars out of this!
I actually cancelled Hulu+ after paying for it for 2 months. It's an interesting story, and it kinda enforces CD's position.
Have Hulu+ because it lets me play stuff on the Roku.
Pay $8/mo for it but it lets us watch TV up to date and not on a PC.
There are still ads? WTF people? I'm paying for this now, you don't get ad revenue too! Whatever.
I wanted to watch Good Eats because Alton Brown is awesome.
I plop down in front of the Roku and search for it on Hulu+.
I find the show, start playing it, and it plays their 15sec ad or whatever on Hulu+.
After the ad finishes, a message screen pops up that says "This is premium content and can only be played on a PC"
I went "WTactualF" and immediately cancel my Hulu+ subscription.
If I'm going to pay for a service, and you make the for-pay service more limited than the FREE service.... To hell with that. I didn't pay for Hulu+ to bring my programming schedule forward 1 week, I paid for it so it would work on devices other than a PC, and within 2 months of starting service, I find content that still can't be played elsewhere even if I'm paying for it.
This is why people illegally pirate television and movies, and games, and everything else. The publishers make their services disgustingly limited and difficult to use, or don't give you decent benefits for premium services (ie; no ads in Hulu+)
2 product providers who don't limit you needlessly that I've seen so far are Netflix and Pandora One. I also like Crackle because they're free to begin with and are strictly ad-based, and don't seem to be too obnoxious with the ads.
Have Hulu+ because it lets me play stuff on the Roku.
Pay $8/mo for it but it lets us watch TV up to date and not on a PC.
There are still ads? WTF people? I'm paying for this now, you don't get ad revenue too! Whatever.
I wanted to watch Good Eats because Alton Brown is awesome.
I plop down in front of the Roku and search for it on Hulu+.
I find the show, start playing it, and it plays their 15sec ad or whatever on Hulu+.
After the ad finishes, a message screen pops up that says "This is premium content and can only be played on a PC"
I went "WTactualF" and immediately cancel my Hulu+ subscription.
If I'm going to pay for a service, and you make the for-pay service more limited than the FREE service.... To hell with that. I didn't pay for Hulu+ to bring my programming schedule forward 1 week, I paid for it so it would work on devices other than a PC, and within 2 months of starting service, I find content that still can't be played elsewhere even if I'm paying for it.
This is why people illegally pirate television and movies, and games, and everything else. The publishers make their services disgustingly limited and difficult to use, or don't give you decent benefits for premium services (ie; no ads in Hulu+)
2 product providers who don't limit you needlessly that I've seen so far are Netflix and Pandora One. I also like Crackle because they're free to begin with and are strictly ad-based, and don't seem to be too obnoxious with the ads.
