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I have gotten offers for Steaming Movies and Shows since late last year and they often turn out to be the something as what I can watch on my TV either OTA or Cable...

 

Could someone please explain the point of having this? If I'm watching content on my computer, then I want to be able to watch what I want, when I want. Internet TV doesn't make any sense to me at all.

 

What about my fellow posters?

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Well internet TV is similar to cable / OTA but with internet as the data medium.

If you already have cable, no point getting one, unless theres' an exclusive channel.

Internet TV usually have some perks like online DVR.

 

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it will makes sense depending on what is available where you live. ISP competition etc. My options are internet or satellite and internet is better than satellite. If I drive 10 minutes out of town internet is crap so satellite will be better.

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5 minutes ago, CoolKaylee said:

Live TV, in some respects, is better than the traditional cable or satellite way when watch TV channels. 

Live TV, sometimes you can call it IPTV. So, you can watch anything that displayed on TV screen when there is internet. More specific, you can watch the programs on computer with a IPTV player like VLC and 5KPlayer live.

Better still, you can also enjoy some internet contents.

My point as in why I don't IPTV is that I can't watch What and When I choose. Services such as Netflix, IMDB, and CWTV I can.

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2 hours ago, whm1974 said:

I have gotten offers for Steaming Movies and Shows since late last year and they often turn out to be the something as what I can watch on my TV either OTA or Cable...

 

Could someone please explain the point of having this? If I'm watching content on my computer, then I want to be able to watch what I want, when I want. Internet TV doesn't make any sense to me at all.

 

What about my fellow posters?

Sports. They simply do not exist on Netflix, Amazon TV, etc. The only way to watch your Hockey, F1, Football, American Football, etc. is through traditional broadcasters.

 

The one I'm subscribed to through my cable subscription allows users to watch past programs and games at their leisure, albeit the recordings only go back to maybe a week or so.  

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12 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Sports. They simply do not exist on Netflix, Amazon TV, etc. The only way to watch your Hockey, F1, Football, American Football, etc. is through traditional broadcasters.

 

The one I'm subscribed to through my cable subscription allows users to watch past programs and games at their leisure, albeit the recordings only go back to maybe a week or so.  

Well going to only last number of Movies and Shows is fine. As far as Sports go, I don't watch them anyway.

 

Well if there was such a thing as Naked Cheerleaders, I would watch but. Wouldn't women with extra large breasts performing w/o any proper support, that actually hurt, Right? 

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21 minutes ago, whm1974 said:

Well going to only last number of Movies and Shows is fine. As far as Sports go, I don't watch them anyway.

 

Well if there was such a thing as Naked Cheerleaders, I would watch but. Wouldn't women with extra large breasts performing w/o any proper support, that actually hurt, Right? 

Yea so apart from sports and maybe the occasional vintage festive Halloween, Christmas, etc. movies from like the 90s (stuff Netflix and the other streaming services probably won't bother with), I don't see any programming that would make IPTV appealing to the average consumer. Heck even news channels are streaming their evening news live on YouTube rather than using IPTV exclusively for the internet side of things. 

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If you can't see the point of having it, then you're not the target audience.

 

my mother still watches "normal tv" there are just somethings that are only broadcast on TV that don't get re-uploaded as VODs.

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I personall don't see a point to any of the broadcast and liveTV formats. I pretty much only use VODs for entertainment. (Netflix, YouTube, Prime, etc.) Then again i also don't get the appeal of watching streamers. So i guess i'm also just not the target audience of this stuff.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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2 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Sports. They simply do not exist on Netflix, Amazon TV, etc. The only way to watch your Hockey, F1, Football, American Football, etc. is through traditional broadcasters.

That's starting to change in some countries though. Amazon got the rights to some Premier League games last year.

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6 minutes ago, Arika S said:

If you can't see the point of having it, then you're not the target audience.

 

my mother still watches "normal tv" there are just somethings that are only broadcast on TV that don't get re-uploaded as VODs.

Precisely. Maybe 60% of the market still untouched by the streaming platform and they just want to switch on and don't care about browsing the videos.

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2 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

Precisely. Maybe 60% of the market still untouched by the streaming platform and they just want to switch on and don't care about browsing the videos.

Sorry, quoted wrong reply

 

2 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

That's starting to change in some countries though. Amazon got the rights to some Premier League games last year.

 

Only because COVID meant nobody could attend matches in person, they also put a certain amount on FTA TV as well.

 

Don't expect that to last long once lockdown is lifted and people can return to watching in person.

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I forgotten about this Topic, but I've been Binge Watching CW Seed so... I had a dislike for watching TV back when Netflix was a DVD service.

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