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Originally Posted by mcdude
If they are losing 10,000 customers a month why do they keep raising prices? It makes no sense to me.
No one has mentioned Slingbox (as opposed to SlingTV)....one of the many things I learned about on this forum (Thanks Blue Thunder) Hook the Slingbox up at home (connects to cable box and modem) then, when up at camp, go to the Slingbox site and hook up to your at home cable! Why pay for cable twice? There is no monthly fee and the Slingbox is reasonably priced. Run an HDMI cable from your laptop to your TV and voila!
http://www.slingbox.com/ |
That is sort of a first generation to streaming content over the internet, now you can just access content directly instead of relaying off your service at home and do so from multiple access points at the same time watching different stuff. Offers a lot of flexibility along with buy once watch anywhere.
That customer bleeding apparently has accelerated and at least comcast is starting to finally notice they better do something or else. Thing is these cable companies are owned by larger media organizations and as such are slow to adapt. Roku as a content aggregator is growing exponentially pretty much being the #1 streaming platform where you can access just about every possible streaming channel or service out there. All the while you have streaming content providers gobbling up market share with cheaper services that are superior in content choices. Combine a free platform and cheaper better services and consumers are flocking to it.
Competition in this streaming service space at least for now will keep prices down, also the fact these services are no contract month to month subscriptions so if they start jerking people around they will leave with no penalty for the next cheapest option.