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by lotsofpulp 1880 days ago
> YouTube TV and Hulu seem to keep increasing their prices to the point where there's not much difference from traditional cable, other than it's easier to cancel.

That removal of the cable/satellite middlemen and ease of buying and canceling is pretty big I think. Now we just need to wait for the sports organizations contracts with networks to lose sufficient value that it makes sense to cut out the old networks and blackouts or whatever completely.

However, I think the value proposition for traditional bulk purchase TV entertainment where you don’t watch 99% of it is gone. I can buy all of the stuff I watch whenever I want and it would cost less than a monthly subscription to one of these channel services, and I wouldn’t have to sit through ads. Sports is the only missing factor, but the sports organizations are worth nowhere near what they charge right now to me.