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6/5/2017 4:55pm
The complaint that I read over and over is that you want to do a thing the way you have always done it, and because you can't, the system is wrong.
The other big one is that the $50 NBC Gold package is a step backwards, doesn't help the sport, etc. Well, nobody at NBC cares about the sport, and our numbers do not warrant a four hour live time slot every weekend. Those who run this series, MX Sports and Davey Coombs, DO care about the sport and DO work very hard to provide you with the most access possible.
I travel and relocate a lot. When I come home to my parents' house, I beg them to cancel cable. It's an awful, expensive user experience to sit down in front of a TV and flip through 100 garbage channels and to be barraged by commercials when you do find the one thing you want to watch. I think my parents pay like $220/month for this privilege. If you pay $100/month that's $1,200/year. $200/month = $2,400/year. Ok?
Here's how you do it in 2017:
1. Buy a Chromecast. It's $35 or $69 if you want to stream 4K. Plug it into an HDMI slot on your TV.
- Add the Cast browser extension to Google Chrome on your laptop or desktop.
- Add the Google Home app to your smartphone or tablet.
2. Netflix. It's $12 for their top tier plan. $8 for the lowest.
- This will stream to Chromecast from any device.
- YouTube will also stream from any device.
3. Amazon Prime. It's $100 per year ($8.25/month) and includes Prime Video. There are tons of shows and movies here that Netflix doesn't have.
- You can add HBO, Showtime, Starz, and more to your Prime account for another $15/month.
4. Hulu. $8 a month or $40/month for live TV.
5. Sling TV. Basically all of your cable channels, live, including sports, including supercross, for $25 month. The app will stream from any device to your TV.
6. NBC Sports Gold. $50/month. [Edit: $50/year. Thanks Scottie.] Motocross. Wirelessly streamed in HD from any of your devices to your Chromecast.
7. iTunes or Google Play for any show you somehow haven't found on any of these services. You can buy the current season of your favorite TV show for $20 or so.
THE BIG BOLD REAL BEAUTY OF ALL THIS is that you can cancel these services when you are not using them. You get to choose when to pay for the things you actually want to watch.
Netflix + Prime Video + HBO + Hulu + Sling TV = ~$67 per month = ~$804 annually.
That's 30% of what you pay now.
Add $50 for NBC Sports Gold and $100 to buy the complete series of Breaking Bad on iTunes and you're spending half of cable or dish and you're almost completely commercial free.
That's the price if you never cancel anything. If you have favorite shows that you watch, you can pay for a couple months at a time and cancel when the show is over. You can pay a tiny, tiny fraction of what cable costs and stream them in HD to your big TV from your iThing and browse Facebook and Vital from the same phone or tablet or laptop at the same time.
"The difference between rats and humans is that when a rat finds the cheese is missing from the usual tunnel, it will turn around and try a different tunnel. A human will pull up a chair and wait for the cheese to come to him."
- Bill O'hanlon
Also...
Kinda sounds like the day the gates were locked up at the country club. Pay to get in, or be considered a slacker. Oh... And we all know how that turned out n the end.......
its $50 a year bro.
The Shop
I also know that with my parents, Netflix and the endless, exclusively on-demand options are actually overwhelming. It's different from channel surfing for something to watch.
Watch the races through YouTube TV. You get these channels on YouTube TV for $35 a month, no contracts involved.
DirecTV pays to carry NBC. You pay DirecTV. You're probably paying DirecTV more than they are paying for your share of NBC, and NBC still has to sell ads to stay afloat. They need eyeballs to sell ads.
The NBC Sports "Motors" section doesn't include motocross anymore. The link out to promotocross.com. NBC Sports Gold groups motocross with cycling, rugby, and track and field. These are great sports with passionate but small followings and they probably don't sell enough ads to be worthwhile.
(This may not be true!) but I believe MX Sports actually pays NBC Sports to carry the races. Continuing to totally talk out my ass, maybe MX Sports gets a kick-back on the Gold subscription as incentive to sell it.
It's a food chain. Motocross isn't valuable enough or isn't the right format for the traditional coverage that other sports get. The stakeholders have to do what they can to make it work.
Also having a cable contract does suck so it is fully understandable yiur frustration.
Pit Row
That said, i've been using YouTube TV and I really like it. It will be my method of watching Supercross in 2018.
44 channels for $35/mo. works out to about $.80 per channel. Ever ask yourself why you can't just pay $.80(or even $1.00) each for the channels you actually want? Why do I need to subsidize shit like Bravo, MSNBC(PUKE), local now(?), ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNEWS, Fox News, CNBC, UNIVERSO(I don't even speak spanish), E!, Disney, NBC GOLF(I don't have a problem sleeping), etc., etc., etc...
At $1.00 each, I see about $4.00 worth of channels on that list that I'd even care to have.
$35.00/month for that package is highway robbery IMO.
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