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06-27-2024, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Runway48
During our last stay in TV we rented a house with Apollo group TV app. Once I got used to it, I found it rather amazing. I could view almost anything from current movies to local TV broadcasts. And by local, I mean local anywhere across the country as long as I knew the station call letters, I could look at the local news from any station from California to New York. Having just paid my $350 monthly cable bill which supplies me with 500 channels of which I only look at about 6, I decided to look into apollo group tv. It requires a firestick or roku type device. It's incredibly inexpensive, less than $200/yr. When I look to cutting the cable, it seems I need to subscribe to a half dozen services to cover the cable offerings at which point the savings are not that great and there is a lot of redundancies. As the saying goes, "if it sounds too good to be true...." Does anyone have any experience with the apollo tv group app? Thanks.
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- 1. Legitimate rebroadcast services are only allowed to provide the local channels in your viewing area (I can get Orlando channels but not Baltimore channels)
- 2. Network owners (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, etc) are allowed to charge for rebroadcast of their content. This is why occasionally a channel will not be available on cable until the cable provider and the network agree on fees
- 3. Hulu Live and YouTube TV are in competition with one another yet both feel they need to charge about $75/month for local channels
- 4. Netflix, Max, and Showtime all need to charge $10-$20 per month to cover their costs for providing movie content
- 5. The NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and others all charge a significant amount for rebroadcast of their content
- 6. If all the above is accurate then I should only be able to get one set of local channels which alone should cost about $75/month and any licensed content such as movies should come with additional costs with sports being very expensive
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- 7. all that is because most providers aren't as intelligent as the Apollo Group who can provide all of the above and more for only $100/year.
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