Posts tagged cable cutters

Time Warner readies launch of their streaming-TV iPad app.

I covered this before, but exactly what is the real benefit to this app if the content can’t leave the house? It might have a pleasant interface for setting your DVR. In 2011 that seems a little lacking. Slingbox came out when? 2006? Have TWC not been following Spotify, or Rdio? Those music services allow subscribers to take their content with them. Mobility; that’s what people really want*

*What people really, really want is to only have to subscribe to the shows they want; we’ll see the porcine sound barrier broken first.

MLB and the NBA get it. The Apple TV 4.2 update adds subscription support for both to its internet services.I think I just heard another few thousand cable cords being cut. 

MLB and the NBA get it. The Apple TV 4.2 update adds subscription support for both to its internet services.

I think I just heard another few thousand cable cords being cut. 

Randall, thanks for the reblog. Actually, not complex at all. What seems hard, or worth the additional expenditure of $1500 a year on channels that you never use? The only device you touch as the user is the remote. Everything else happens completely behind the scenes.

randallcreasey:

This just sounds too complicated. Let me make an easier infographic:
Pay for cable and have 100% of your video content interests.
An Illustrated Guide to Cutting Cable & Backing Up (by upload)

Randall, thanks for the reblog. Actually, not complex at all. What seems hard, or worth the additional expenditure of $1500 a year on channels that you never use? The only device you touch as the user is the remote. Everything else happens completely behind the scenes.

randallcreasey:

This just sounds too complicated. Let me make an easier infographic:

Pay for cable and have 100% of your video content interests.

An Illustrated Guide to Cutting Cable & Backing Up (by upload)