Does the US have the UKs equivalent of the Amazon Fire Stick hack?
You buy a fire stick, slip a bloke down the pub £50 ($75 for the year) and a VPN and you have access to ALL the PPV sports, movies, drama etc.
Yes yes copyright etc Mr Bunch but there comes a point where even the most reasonable customer (in a cost of living crisis the UK is undergoing, we'd kill for your economy right now) says "I'm not paying that" and you lose them forever.
"In a very real way, the NFL is best understood not as a sports league but as a method for the networks to hammer home what the new shows each season are. It’s why when you’re watching the Bengals play on CBS you get a dozen ads per game for Young Sheldon or whatever. The football being played is incidental to the ad-delivery device of the ref’s whistle, hence all the constant whistling.**"
Spot on!!! I would also add that the closer it gets to Christmas, the more they're a vehicle (pun intended) for selling luxury cars to give as a gift to yourself or significant other.
1. RED ZONE makes perfect sense if you understand where it fits in the NFL’s ecosystem. It’s a(n expensive) subscription that attracts hardcore NFL fans and degenerate gamblers (mostly fantasy footballers). It’s basically the crack cocaine of NFL watching.
2. Quick Change is Bill Murray’s most under appreciated movie, especially by Bill Murray. Setting aside his feelings about the movie, it’s legit his best “too-cool-for-school” performance ever. Geena Davis and Randy Quaid are note-perfect in their roles, too. Honestly, if we were doing a Bill Murray movie draft Quick Change would probably be my first pick.
Sunday Ticket (including the original and superior Red Zone channel hosted by Andrew Siciliano) is the only reason I still have DirecTV, which was great in 1999 but has now declined precipitously and become way too expensive. As soon as this season ends, I will be cutting that cord since Apple will be taking over and switching to a streaming live TV package of some sort. Not sure what will happen with Red Zone under Apple but I will still be watching all the games on Sunday Ticket just as I have for the last 23 years.
The one big difference between streaming a football game and watching it on cable - is the ability to change channels during commercials or halftime and watching something else - that is something that streaming doesn't easily allow - I wonder how consumers will feel about that?
Does the US have the UKs equivalent of the Amazon Fire Stick hack?
You buy a fire stick, slip a bloke down the pub £50 ($75 for the year) and a VPN and you have access to ALL the PPV sports, movies, drama etc.
Yes yes copyright etc Mr Bunch but there comes a point where even the most reasonable customer (in a cost of living crisis the UK is undergoing, we'd kill for your economy right now) says "I'm not paying that" and you lose them forever.
People who do this should go to prison.
"In a very real way, the NFL is best understood not as a sports league but as a method for the networks to hammer home what the new shows each season are. It’s why when you’re watching the Bengals play on CBS you get a dozen ads per game for Young Sheldon or whatever. The football being played is incidental to the ad-delivery device of the ref’s whistle, hence all the constant whistling.**"
Spot on!!! I would also add that the closer it gets to Christmas, the more they're a vehicle (pun intended) for selling luxury cars to give as a gift to yourself or significant other.
Two unrelated things:
1. RED ZONE makes perfect sense if you understand where it fits in the NFL’s ecosystem. It’s a(n expensive) subscription that attracts hardcore NFL fans and degenerate gamblers (mostly fantasy footballers). It’s basically the crack cocaine of NFL watching.
2. Quick Change is Bill Murray’s most under appreciated movie, especially by Bill Murray. Setting aside his feelings about the movie, it’s legit his best “too-cool-for-school” performance ever. Geena Davis and Randy Quaid are note-perfect in their roles, too. Honestly, if we were doing a Bill Murray movie draft Quick Change would probably be my first pick.
Quiet on the Red Zone lack of ads. I've been a subscriber since it started and the lack of ads makes it bliss!
Sunday Ticket (including the original and superior Red Zone channel hosted by Andrew Siciliano) is the only reason I still have DirecTV, which was great in 1999 but has now declined precipitously and become way too expensive. As soon as this season ends, I will be cutting that cord since Apple will be taking over and switching to a streaming live TV package of some sort. Not sure what will happen with Red Zone under Apple but I will still be watching all the games on Sunday Ticket just as I have for the last 23 years.
Before I moved to Dallas I watched the last three seasons of the NFL almost entirely via Red Zone.
I admit I had the iPad out and the mute button handy -
The one big difference between streaming a football game and watching it on cable - is the ability to change channels during commercials or halftime and watching something else - that is something that streaming doesn't easily allow - I wonder how consumers will feel about that?
I feel like smart phones can fill in the "zone out during commercial breaks" gap, yeah?