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Originally Posted by rsmurano
When companies start losing customers that’s when they start making deals, it’s not the other way around. All of these cable/internet/netflix/amazon subscribers never want their quarterly report to state they lost customers or their stock will go down. I’m paying $40 a month for 1.2Gbps speed where xfinity wanted $150 when I was their customer at renewal time. Spectrum offers that same price today if you move your phones to their mobile plan. There are deals out there.
As for good tv, nothing good is free. Roku is just a device that gives you crap tv stations just like any other device like Apple TV 4K (preferred over Roku), firestick, chromecast, and other devices. You will pay for good tv channels and sometimes you can pay more than what cable tv costs because you are buying several packages instead of 1 service.
IPTV has been out for years. You can get thousands of channels but you better have vpn or you could get caught.
I have always made deals with vendors in this area for decades, they don’t want to lose you as a customer.
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Originally Posted by jrref
Normally, I would agree with you
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Any time anyone discusses the seedy side of IPTV, you do NOT agree with them. So "normally I agree with you" is just flat out untrue.
I also make deals with my vendor. This year I caught them between promotions and a month after my old deal expired, so they wouldn't let me keep my old plan at the same price. However, instead of charging me another $30/month for my old plan on top of the $50 I was already paying, they gave me a new plan, twice the speed, for $3/month more. I don't need twice the speed, and my modem doesn't even go that high anyway. But they did make accommodations for me and even waived the $30 for that month, which was already underway when I called them.
I also got YouTubeTV to honor the old price for 6 months, even though they raised their prices. They also are on notice that if Hulu+TV doesn't raise -their- prices, when my 6 months are up, I'll be switching to Hulu+TV since I'll get more for less, at that point.
I'm happy to pay for copyrighted material. The people who produce these shows, the actors, the lighting folks, script-writers, the set designers, make-up artists, and everyone else - they all deserve to get paid. You might be fine promoting a service that allows people to bypass all that. But that doesn't make it ethical and in some cases, the end result is illegal.