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This is the start of the streaming era for college football. The current TV era has started its decline and streaming will be the future for sports and other content live movies and sitcoms. I think the Amazon streaming platform has the rights for Thursday night NFL football this season. Apple TV has started broadcasting Friday night baseball.

(08-18-2022 02:48 PM)tj_2009 Wrote:  This is the start of the streaming era for college football. The current TV era has started its decline and streaming will be the future for sports and other content live movies and sitcoms. I think the Amazon streaming platform has the rights for Thursday night NFL football this season. Apple TV has started broadcasting Friday night baseball.

These are experiments. Time will tell whether they work out. Maybe some people are willing to pay for a half dozen streaming services. My guess is that not many will be willing to.

If you're a Notre Dame fan, are you willing to go to the trouble of signing up for Peacock just for a meaningless game? Yes, they'll have a free trial period but you'll have to go to the trouble of signing up and then remembering to cancel. Is it worth the hassle?

(08-18-2022 03:16 PM)Hallcity Wrote:  

(08-18-2022 02:48 PM)tj_2009 Wrote:  This is the start of the streaming era for college football. The current TV era has started its decline and streaming will be the future for sports and other content live movies and sitcoms. I think the Amazon streaming platform has the rights for Thursday night NFL football this season. Apple TV has started broadcasting Friday night baseball.

These are experiments. Time will tell whether they work out. Maybe some people are willing to pay for a half dozen streaming services. My guess is that not many will be willing to.

If you're a Notre Dame fan, are you willing to go to the trouble of signing up for Peacock just for a meaningless game? Yes, they'll have a free trial period but you'll have to go to the trouble of signing up and then remembering to cancel. Is it worth the hassle?

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Streaming can be extremely unreliable even with great internet speed.

(08-18-2022 03:16 PM)Hallcity Wrote:  

(08-18-2022 02:48 PM)tj_2009 Wrote:  This is the start of the streaming era for college football. The current TV era has started its decline and streaming will be the future for sports and other content live movies and sitcoms. I think the Amazon streaming platform has the rights for Thursday night NFL football this season. Apple TV has started broadcasting Friday night baseball.

These are experiments. Time will tell whether they work out. Maybe some people are willing to pay for a half dozen streaming services. My guess is that not many will be willing to.

If you're a Notre Dame fan, are you willing to go to the trouble of signing up for Peacock just for a meaningless game? Yes, they'll have a free trial period but you'll have to go to the trouble of signing up and then remembering to cancel. Is it worth the hassle?

Yes, I signed up last year for one game, then cancelled.

I will do that again. No problem.

(08-18-2022 11:48 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(08-18-2022 03:16 PM)Hallcity Wrote:  

(08-18-2022 02:48 PM)tj_2009 Wrote:  This is the start of the streaming era for college football. The current TV era has started its decline and streaming will be the future for sports and other content live movies and sitcoms. I think the Amazon streaming platform has the rights for Thursday night NFL football this season. Apple TV has started broadcasting Friday night baseball.

These are experiments. Time will tell whether they work out. Maybe some people are willing to pay for a half dozen streaming services. My guess is that not many will be willing to.

If you're a Notre Dame fan, are you willing to go to the trouble of signing up for Peacock just for a meaningless game? Yes, they'll have a free trial period but you'll have to go to the trouble of signing up and then remembering to cancel. Is it worth the hassle?

Yes, I signed up last year for one game, then cancelled.

I will do that again. No problem.

I signed up for ESPN+ a couple of times when VT baseball or Softball were on it and cancelled after. It's very affordable. 1 month is all you're required to buy.

depending on your provider you can get peacock premium for free too and its the most affordable stand alone streaming option($5 per month though i am guessing it will increase some by next year), so its not a big deal and right after you subscribe you can cancel as it bills for 30 days regardless of when you cancel

(08-18-2022 02:48 PM)tj_2009 Wrote:  This is the start of the streaming era for college football. The current TV era has started its decline and streaming will be the future for sports and other content live movies and sitcoms. I think the Amazon streaming platform has the rights for Thursday night NFL football this season. Apple TV has started broadcasting Friday night baseball.

ND's home game against Toledo was exclusively on Peacock, so the UNLV game this year is not the start. However, with the addition of exclusive B12 and SEC games on ESPN+, the inclusion of a streaming package in the new B1G deal on Peacock, this is obviously a trend that will continue.

I fully expect that the ACC's current RSN package will move to ESPN+ when that contract runs out in 2026 or 2027.

At this point, only two streaming services, Netflix and Prime, have the same scale as an OTA network or major cable network like ESPN (which had 76 million subscribers as of November, 2021). Hulu is getting there with 46 million US subscribers. ESPN+ remains well short of this scale with only about 23 million subscribers.

Spectrum is offering a free trial of Peacock. When I signed up it was for a full year.

I haven't found anything on it to watch though. Maybe when football season starts??

I signed up and kept it. Love the office reruns.

F Peacock

It's dumb. I admit, I pay for it. But mainly because I forgot about it and I think there is like one show we watch on there. I wouldn't go out of my way to watch any sports on there. I suppose they'll be getting a lot of New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, and Minnesota subscribers soon though.

If you’re getting Peacock, even for a short time, check out the Dr. Death Series. It’s a Peacock Original Series. It’s a true story about Christopher Duntsch a Dallas surgeon.