Mark F Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 yes I think you are right Brandon... and if the owner cares, they can have the fan uploads removed. but I think the money involved is so small, that it probably not worth doing. It's a minute amount of money, I read somebody got 12 dollars for a tune that had been watched hundreds of thousands of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark F Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 I literally watch about 7 or 8 channels. TSN, Sportsnet, and whatever channels are showing football. Also Modern Family when I get home from work, I think that's Fox. No "party down south"? Lol. There is so much crap on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noeller Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 We watch a ton of current stuff on regular TV, and most of it is available through streaming sites, but I still like my Telus satellite for live sports (best HD going) and the PVR is nice, too. I guess I'm old school, but I don't think I'll ever be a cord cutter. We have TVMC and use it for movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 I literally watch about 7 or 8 channels. TSN, Sportsnet, and whatever channels are showing football. Also Modern Family when I get home from work, I think that's Fox. No "party down south"? Lol. There is so much crap on TV. I've never heard of party down south. Calculating. You must mean South Park. Yes I watch that sometimes I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan007 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 So I'm bringing back this old thread. Have any of you checked out the new $25 packages? They're still finding a way to screw us. Bell has nothing but Canadian stations, no ABC, NBC or CBS. No TSN unless you buy some package. MTS's doesn't look so bad, except again, no TSN. If you want TSN you have to buy a $17 "essentials" package. Half of the stations in the essentials package I don't even want. Seriously MTS, get rid of the baggage and lower the price on the TSN package. Shaw's package is ok as well, although I believe it's the same thing for the TSN. I just looked at this one briefly because we don't get it outside the city. Rogers I didn't bother looking at because we don't get that either here, but I heard it was crap as well. Apparently they're making them do something else with their packages by Christmas time. Someone mentioned something to me but I don't recall the exact details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Meh. isnt the point to provide X amount of TV to people who cant afford large packages? Mission accomplished. Cable isnt a right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigg jay Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 5 minutes ago, Logan007 said: Apparently they're making them do something else with their packages by Christmas time. Someone mentioned something to me but I don't recall the exact details. By Christmas, every single channel has to be available as a stand alone option so you won't be forced to buy bundles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 3 minutes ago, bigg jay said: By Christmas, every single channel has to be available as a stand alone option so you won't be forced to buy bundles. I didnt realize that Friday was a holiday or I could have got day tickets. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17to85 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 If you think cable companies are going to do anything that doesn't result in maximum profit for minimum services you're fooling yourselves. They're all pirates. Brandon Blue&Gold and bigg jay 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigg jay Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 13 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said: I didnt realize that Friday was a holiday or I could have got day tickets. Oh well. Movie thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan007 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 I'm just saying, no matter what kind of "deal" they try and give us, we're always going to get screwed. This $25 thing just seems like a big BS to quite customers. Canadian TV and Internet is so expensive. I was reading some people's comments about how they were trying to call Bell to switch over to the $25 plan and the reps kept pushing them to stick with what they had. Sounded like the reps were being real pricks about it too. Not sure if the other company's were doing the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigg jay Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Bell actually instructed it's staff to downplay the skinny package although their package is so horrid that it doesn't take much to downplay it! The other companies (afaik) aren't going that far, they're just making it harder to find the info on their websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taynted_Fayth Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Bell kinda sucks, i got like 700 channels and maybe watch 20 of them, cuz the other 680 are either the same channel but from a different area of the country, same channel but HD, french, PPV or channels i dont watch anyways like CNN, or the antique channel. I miss playing MTS games with my remote during commercials or when waiting for something to come on. best $5 add on ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 24 minutes ago, bigg jay said: Movie thread? damn it! bigg jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 33 minutes ago, 17to85 said: If you think cable companies are going to do anything that doesn't result in maximum profit for minimum services you're fooling yourselves. They're all pirates. Private business. They want profit. if I owned a hot dog stand, I'd want to provide decent hotdogs. But I'd want you to pay as much as possible for them. I get annoyed with providers sometimes too. But the market bears what it bears. Prices will fluctuate due to competition. Churn is a big problem. People jump back and forth trying to take advantage of new customer deals. Thats never felt worth it to me. I've been with the same provider for years and years (although I intend to change when I move later this year). I had Bell once when it was hardwired into a building I lived at. One Christmas, it snowed and we lost TV for a couple of days. Now that aggravated me. We can control a robot on Mars but we cant get me a TV signal when it snows. In Winnipeg. So no Satellite for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan007 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Seriously, all I want is TSN so I can watch Football during the summer/fall/winter. Stupid TV. bigg jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigg jay Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Me too, I'm looking forward to seeing what it'll cost for just sports channels next winter. We literally do not watch anything but sports off our cable box right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 The price of internet is going to sky rocket. A lot of people are going to be going to go to minimal cable and supplement the TV shows they watch with some kind of Netflix or streaming equivalent (other services, pirated, or whatever). The expenses of the cable companies are not going to go down nor will their expected profits. If they lose a bunch of income from column A (TV) and everyone moves to column B (internet), all the money they used to charge from column a will now get charged to column B. Fatty Liver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Just now, Rich said: The price of internet is going to sky rocket. A lot of people are going to be going to go to minimal cable and supplement the TV shows they watch with some kind of Netflix or streaming equivalent. The expenses of the cable companies are not going to do down. If they lose a bunch of income from column A (TV) and everyone moves to column B (internet), all the money they used to charge from column a will now get charged to column B. Definitely. The idea of cutting cable sounds good when you can have Netflix and maybe one other service and get everything you want. But every network and provider is going to have their own streaming service. In the end, it will be just like cable except instead of paying one price for 100 channels, you pay 20 times for 20 streaming services. And since that is "premium" it will cost more. And ofcourse if you want to watch super HD and everything in your home is on the internet, then you're going to pay more for internet access too. Everything is going to be Internet delivered eventually. I attended a work meeting a couple of years ago and I think they said people have an average of 13 connected devices in their home and everyone said no not a chance. But then they began adding up their cell phones, ipads, laptops, desktops, TV's, blu ray players, ipods, etc. And the forecast was for something like 30 connected devices in each home in the next few years. My parents' washing machine is connected. Refrigerators are connected. The door lock. Thermostat. Lights. Everything will be connected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taynted_Fayth Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 i wonder how that will affect rating and commercial money for TV shows if everyone switched to netflix or kodi...ect where you can watch the program anytime, not live and commercial free. Ive been watching a few old movies recently on youtube trying to pass out like Cyborg, king of kings, side kicks (yes with chuck norris lol) and they started cutting into the movies with random commercials. i wonder if this eventually happens with netflix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 2 minutes ago, Taynted_Fayth said: i wonder how that will affect rating and commercial money for TV shows if everyone switched to netflix or kodi...ect where you can watch the program anytime, not live and commercial free. Ive been watching a few old movies recently on youtube trying to pass out like Cyborg, king of kings, side kicks (yes with chuck norris lol) and they started cutting into the movies with random commercials. i wonder if this eventually happens with netflix I doubt it. Netflix was such a masterful idea and they have so many subs that they dont need commercials to make money. CBS is banking on a new Star Trek TV series to be the cornerstone of of their streaming service, All Access. But All Access also has commercials which is going to really aggravate people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taynted_Fayth Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 oh yeah i forgot netflix makes you pay to subscribe, or at least did at one time? interesting enough yesterday i watched SNL with Jonah Hill, then last weeks (i think?) episode with Melissa mccarthy and during the mccarthy SNL i watched a commercial in the middle of it. that was the first time ever ive seen a commercial on Kodi and ive watched a lot of tv off it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
do or die Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 In the end, it is just another cable company shell game: Offer people run of the mill channels in a "skinny package".....withhold the channels that people would really want to watch - call them "premium", and overcharge you for those..... but hey, they did their duty, and have complied with the CTRC "demands" Gah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigg jay Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 4 minutes ago, Taynted_Fayth said: oh yeah i forgot netflix makes you pay to subscribe, or at least did at one time? interesting enough yesterday i watched SNL with Jonah Hill, then last weeks (i think?) episode with Melissa mccarthy and during the mccarthy SNL i watched a commercial in the middle of it. that was the first time ever ive seen a commercial on Kodi and ive watched a lot of tv off it That would be because whoever uploaded the stream, forgot to cut it out. It happens occassionally but it has nothing to with Kodi itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty Liver Posted March 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 53 minutes ago, bigg jay said: Bell actually instructed it's staff to downplay the skinny package although their package is so horrid that it doesn't take much to downplay it! The other companies (afaik) aren't going that far, they're just making it harder to find the info on their websites. A big part of their strategy will be to make it so inconvenient and unattractive to switch packages that 95% of their customers won't bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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