tarheelhockey
Offside Review Specialist
I get the reference to why Canes Prospects used that song but whenever I hear it, this immediately comes to mind
Other than the vocal, that falls into “so bad it’s good” territory.
I get the reference to why Canes Prospects used that song but whenever I hear it, this immediately comes to mind
I get what you are saying. I think a lot of it has to do with the starting point you are referencing. Back in 2015, I was paying ~$80 for Internet+TV (100s of channels)+two free boxes. Yes, it took some haggling and threats of cutting the cord to do it, but it was easy. I'd take advantage of free trials of premium services if I wanted to binge a show but always cancel before being charged. When I cut the cord in 2017, I was very structured in how I used Streaming services to ensure I didn't end up spending more.Part of it is that maybe we’ve forgotten how ridiculously awful the price model of cable got right before streaming took off.
Back in 2008, the average cost of basic cable was $50 (source) and by 2015 that ballooned to $69 (source).
In 2024 dollars, that’s $73 increasing to $101 over the course of seven years. For basic cable.
Services like Sling, Hulu+, YouTubeTV are pretty much the same thing as basic cable. They cost $40-$76 for a base plan.
So take your (let’s call it on average) $60 for the equivalent of basic cable, which is already 40% cheaper than what you were spending before. Add on “premium channels” — Netflix, Max, Paramount, etc as listed above. If you buy the entire list, you’re in for another $60 a month.
So that’s $120 for basic + premiums. What did the equivalent cost before? Obviously a complicated question because of how tiers were designed, but this reddit thread has it around $200 for a typical multi-tier plan without actual premiums like HBO.
So as far as I can see, virtually everyone is saving about 40% off the equivalent of cable.
And there are exacerbating factors as well:
- Cable companies typically charged for equipment, which also meant charging for replacement of old equipment, and this could run into the hundreds of dollars for a household.
- Cable companies would physically damage your house for installation. I want to cry when I see original hardwood flooring with cable holes drilled through the boards.
- As we all remember, cable prices were a shell game that required you to call and threaten to disconnect in order to get better prices. This was an insane customer service model, but as monopolies they got away with it for decades. A lot of people were out there spending $300+ a month because they wanted a single top-tier channel and weren’t the sort of person to haggle on the phone.
- In order to get a decent price, cable companies required you to bundle services to get products you didn’t want at all. How many of us bought a landline phone just to cut our TV bill, or bought a tier with 8 Hallmark channels in order to be eligible for the next tier which included sports?
- To that point, cable companies deliberately loaded their tiers with junk channels that nobody watched. The equivalent of those channels now cost nothing, they’re free on services like OrbiTV. Want to watch Gunsmoke reruns 24/7 until your eyes pop out? It’s free!
- Streaming services are often given away for free as a benefit of other products. I get HBO/Max for free* with my phone plan. I get Amazon Video for free* with my Amazon Prime account. Whereas I used to pay over $100 a year just for HBO alone.
- Most importantly, you can turn streaming services on and off at will. If all you want is to binge the latest season of Ted Lasso, it’ll cost you $11 for the month. If you wanted the same thing on the old cable model, you were locked into a year contract for thousands of dollars with a termination penalty.
* yes I get how this technically works
I hear you on the results being dependent on the household and their specific dynamic, that’s true. But I can’t see how anyone could be spending as much on equivalent products as they were before, and certainly not if we’re factoring for inflation.
Disney raised prices by 6% LY but was down 2% in revenues since their subscriptions $ declined by 8%.
you don't even need that.Get a jail broke fire stick and Disney plus
wutI also got streaming fatigue from having to subscribe and manage to a billion different services to watch what I wanted.
If you are somewhat technical savvy I would recommend buying a NAS with an Intel chip that supports transcoding, then run Plex/Jellyfin + the *ARR stack as containers on it. You’ll end up with your own private streaming service where you can watch whatever you want across providers with an interface that your grandparents or young children would be able to manage. The only monthly fee you’ll have is a Usenet sub and an Indexer or two, which would probably all be under $10-$15 total.
For live sports there is a service that I won’t mention openly here that will give you the ability to stream mlb/nhl/nba/ufc at 1080p+.
he's right, you knowI also got streaming fatigue from having to subscribe and manage to a billion different services to watch what I wanted.
If you are somewhat technical savvy I would recommend buying a NAS with an Intel chip that supports transcoding, then run Plex/Jellyfin + the *ARR stack as containers on it. You’ll end up with your own private streaming service where you can watch whatever you want across providers with an interface that your grandparents or young children would be able to manage. The only monthly fee you’ll have is a Usenet sub and an Indexer or two, which would probably all be under $10-$15 total.
For live sports there is a service that I won’t mention openly here that will give you the ability to stream mlb/nhl/nba/ufc at 1080p+.
I started this going I'm somewhat tech savvy but by the end of the first sentence it was nope, apparently I'm not.If you are somewhat technical savvy I would recommend buying a NAS with an Intel chip that supports transcoding, then run Plex/Jellyfin + the *ARR stack as containers on it. You’ll end up with your own private streaming service where you can watch whatever you want across providers with an interface that your grandparents or young children would be able to manage. The only monthly fee you’ll have is a Usenet sub and an Indexer or two, which would probably all be under $10-$15 total.
For live sports there is a service that I won’t mention openly here that will give you the ability to stream mlb/nhl/nba/ufc at 1080p+.
Ok, maybe works in IT savvy… but you can follow a guide here:I started this going I'm somewhat tech savvy but by the end of the first sentence it was nope, apparently I'm not.
you don't even need that.
You just need the sixty six.
I'm "out of market" for canes games even though the demographic maps I've seen say South VA is more canes than caps country so I guess I still use ESPN+ mostly this time.
Some of these are words I knowI also got streaming fatigue from having to subscribe and manage to a billion different services to watch what I wanted.
If you are somewhat technical savvy I would recommend buying a NAS with an Intel chip that supports transcoding, then run Plex/Jellyfin + the *ARR stack as containers on it. You’ll end up with your own private streaming service where you can watch whatever you want across providers with an interface that your grandparents or young children would be able to manage. The only monthly fee you’ll have is a Usenet sub and an Indexer or two, which would probably all be under $10-$15 total.
For live sports there is a service that I won’t mention openly here that will give you the ability to stream mlb/nhl/nba/ufc at 1080p+.
Cable sucks and is literally nothing but commercials, shitty media news outlets, and reruns
E.T. phone home with this?I also got streaming fatigue from having to subscribe and manage to a billion different services to watch what I wanted.
If you are somewhat technical savvy I would recommend buying a NAS with an Intel chip that supports transcoding, then run Plex/Jellyfin + the *ARR stack as containers on it. You’ll end up with your own private streaming service where you can watch whatever you want across providers with an interface that your grandparents or young children would be able to manage. The only monthly fee you’ll have is a Usenet sub and an Indexer or two, which would probably all be under $10-$15 total.
For live sports there is a service that I won’t mention openly here that will give you the ability to stream mlb/nhl/nba/ufc at 1080p+.
PNC Arena to Lenovo Center?
PNC Arena to Lenovo Center?
Also… I watched their gameplay video… did they add a significant new feature? I think they literally just added new marketing buzzwords around existing things and added back stuff that was taken away.
We need a NHL2k game again
I got tired of playing the EA NHL games years ago because you knew about 10 sec before the computer was going to score because they'd suddenly go god-mode against you and every poke-check, pass, lost puck, etc would go right to their player and they'd score a soft goal against your goalie. Meanwhile you could put up 50 one-timers and the computer would stop everything even when down & out. Gameplay is just so inconsistent, either way too easy or impossible.This is EA in a nutshell. They take away things, knowing people will continue to buy it because they’re the only game in town. If sales drop enough, they’ll bring back some of the things they took away, but often it’ll be shoddily remade or haphazardly thrown in and not at all updated.
The real money from these games come from the whales in their online franchises across all the sports (CHEL and the like) so that’s the only game mode that gets updated in any significant way.