Cutting The Cable

[SB Shock]

TVG is the horse racing channel. Great coverage around the country and personalities like Brittany Eurton , Gabby Gaudet and Matt Carothers make the racing more fun to follow.

NHK is the Japanese Channel. Bento Express, Kabuki Cool, Pythagora Switch, The Hand Wash Dance and of Course Grand Sumo highlights. Best channel ever.

I have NHK World off of my apple tv. It does not seem to be tied to subscription service.

[WuDrWu]

Here's a little Pythagora Switch Mini to lighten your afternoon

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=NHK+Pythagora+Switch&&view=detail&mid=FEE11CF7782762CE9FE9FEE11CF7782762CE9FE9&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DNHK%2520Pythagora%2520Switch%26qs%3Dn%26form%3DQBVR%26sp%3D-1%26pq%3Dnhk%2520pythagora%2520switch%26sc%3D3-20%26sk%3D%26cvid%3D266AECE944894776A3DFC82F7AF3119B

[WuDrWu]

And if you're looking to learn a little Japanese, who better to teach than Amy Ota?

[Kung Wu]

Here's a little Pythagora Switch Mini to lighten your afternoon

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...FC82F7AF311 9B

Where has this been all my life?!

[wufan]

TVG is the horse racing channel. Great coverage around the country and personalities like Brittany Eurton , Gabby Gaudet and Matt Carothers make the racing more fun to follow.

NHK is the Japanese Channel. Bento Express, Kabuki Cool, Pythagora Switch, The Hand Wash Dance and of Course Grand Sumo highlights. Best channel ever.

I just watch those shows when ESPN8, the Ocho, isn’t playing dodgeball reruns from the 2004 championship when Average Joe’s took down the Purple Cobras.

[RoyalShock]

I'm also looking to get away from DISH (first the ABC blackout, then Fox Regional Sports, now NBC). I think I'm going to wait until the whole Fox Regional Sports thing gets sorted out, as I really want to see Royals games this spring/summer. I don't see how they don't get some deals done once MLB is back to normal.

We also have the issue of omitted channels. Hulu Live doesn't include AMC (have to have the Walking Dead, others) and Parmount. YouTubeTV doesn't include Lifetime (for my better half). There is Philo TV ($20/mo) that includes all those missing networks.

The full Hulu bundle (Hulu, Live, No Ads, unlimited screens, 200 hours DVR) will run about $85/mo. (Disney+, ESPN+ bundle I think adds another $7)

YouTubeTV (limited to 3 simultaneous streams, but has unlimited DVR) is $65.


I figured up that we currently pay $257 for DISH, Netflix, HBO Now, Disney+, ESPN+ and a 50mb Cox internet connection). To replace DISH with full Hulu and Philo would be $224. YouTubeTV and Philo would be $208. The key is whether our Cox 50mb service with 1.35TB data will be adequate. Currently, it does fine when we have 3 simultaneous streams going and we currently use about 500gb a month. If we have to go unlimited, it will be a wash.

[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

Ran across a couple good cord cutting articles at CNET and it says both were current as of December 2020:

https://www.cnet.com/news/best-tv-st...more-compared/ - gives the pros and cons to the major services and a comparison table, covers their basic plans and has some things to consider toward the end

https://www.cnet.com/news/hulu-plus-...nels-compared/ - the top 100 channels are listed by row and the major streamers are the columns and it has a Yes or No or $ (pay extra) per channel for each streamer. For example, if you want the ESPNU channel, you can find it and which services have it

[SubGod22]

Really can't go wrong with either Hulu or YouTube for streaming. I give a slight edge to Hulu for the original programing options they have that YouTube really doesn't.

Sadly, nobody has the Fox regional right now. YouTube does if you live in the immediate metro areas unless that's changed in the last few months. I switched to Hulu because they still had it when YT dropped it, but then a couple months ago I found out Hulu dropped it when I tried to watch a Sporting KC game.

[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

I like YouTube TV but dropped it eventually because a) it was higher priced than Hulu Live TV, and b) they had dropped Fox Sports KC, which Hulu Live TV still had. But now Hulu Live TV dropped Fox Sports KC and bumped their prices to be the same as YouTube TV. The only thing I've found so far with Fox Sports KC seems to be AT&T Now - https://www.atttvnow.com/ - although I'm not sure if it's part of the Plus plan or Max plan and if it's Fox Sports KC or Fox Sports Midwest. A search of channels seems to indicate Fox Sports Midwest, but it lists the Royals for them, but Midwest is the main channel for the Cardinals instead. AT&T also has another thing called AT&T TV, but it has annual contracts and is pretty pricey and it's easy to get the two products mixed up.

I've read articles that have said maybe YouTube and Hulu and others will negotiate deals with the company that owns Fox Sports regional networks, Sinclair Broadcasting, in the coming months, but nothing is certain. So when baseball season rolls around and I want to watch the Royals, I may have to use the AT&T Now to stream them.

[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

Just to follow up on the Royals for those interested, I was reading yesterday about how streaming companies are trying to integrate gambling to their systems because I saw where Fubo had bought a sports betting company and was going to roll out a sportsbook part later this year. Anyway, I started looking to see if the Royals and Fox Sports KC and streaming companies had made any changes, and there was some news right before Thanksgiving about how the Sinclair Broadcast Group had signed an agreement with Bally's Corp in a 10 year deal.

According to this article - https://www.kansascity.com/sports/article247368644.html -

Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns FSKC and the other Fox Regional Sports Networks, last week entered into a partnership agreement with Bally’s Corporation. FSKC will be rebranded using the Bally name with the ultimate goal of letting viewers wager on games using a Bally’s online gaming tool directly from their televisions.

Bloomberg reported that Chris Ripley, Sinclair’s chief executive officer, plans to launch an app this spring that would allow cable subscribers to watch their teams live. After that, Sinclair would give viewers who cut the cord a chance to sign up so they can watch games, too.

While there has been no discussion of cost, the app would give Royals and SKC fans who don’t have cable an opportunity to see games once again now that the other streaming options are gone.

So I imagine places like Hulu and YouTube won't have the channel, but it sounds like maybe there will be an app available for people to watch that way instead.

[SubGod22]

I'm not about to pay Sinclair for an app to watch games. If this is the direction they go, my springs and summers just got a lot more open.

[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

Netflix had a terrible earning report last night (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/netf...s-q1-2022.html) and the stock is down 35% today, dropping from $348 a share yesterday to $224 currently. The 52 week high for the stock is $700. They lost a lot of subscribers (it's the first time they reported losing subscribers in the last 10 years) and they blamed things on increased competition, password sharing, inflation, and no longer doing business in Russia due to the war. The company said they're going to start cracking down on password sharing.

[Kung Wu]

Maybe it's because they have been pushing woke trash at us?

[SHOCKvalue]

Maybe it's because they have been pushing woke trash at us?

That's certainly one of the more patently-obvious take-aways. Go from producing content that has the widest appeal, to content that not only has narrow appeal, but alienates those not within that circle of narrow appeal.

It's weird. Almost like the fundamental tenets of basic economic theory and capitalism are... *gasp*... correct.

[shoxlax]

Netflix had a terrible earning report last night (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/netf...s-q1-2022.html) and the stock is down 35% today, dropping from $348 a share yesterday to $224 currently. The 52 week high for the stock is $700. They lost a lot of subscribers (it's the first time they reported losing subscribers in the last 10 years) and they blamed things on increased competition, password sharing, inflation, and no longer doing business in Russia due to the war. The company said they're going to start cracking down on password sharing.

Increased competition that is free or lower cost. I like some of the things on Netflix but over the top HBO Max (with ads) is cheaper with mostly better original series. Amazon Prime basically throws in a good video streaming product with a membership, although I am sure the cost is included somewhere in the bill. Then there are the free options like Pluto, Tubi and Xumo, which have ads but also have a decent selection of movies and documentaries

As far as the woke shows on Netflix, they are easy to ignore if you down vote them. Less and less of them will show up on your feed.