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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by lostlogin on Saturday October 22, 2016 @03:25PM (#12770189)
"Nobody wants to stream the game tomorrow" This assumes the sports you like and teams you watch are in your country. This may often (usually?) be true but sometimes isn't. Some sports make it impossible to watch live - F1 racing changes countries for each race for example. Who wants to get up at 3am when they have work the next day. I'd watch more sport if streaming was possible.
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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by jrockway on Saturday October 22, 2016 @03:28PM (#12770205)
But you wouldn't switch cable companies or buy content you don't want to watch.

There is no technical reason preventing anyone from streaming/recording sporting events. It's easy.

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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by lostlogin on Saturday October 22, 2016 @04:38PM (#12770458)
Unless you don't have cable - which I don't. If people didn't buy content they don't want it would drastically change things in terms of how much money sports content was worth. It would be an interesting scenario to see play out.
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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by jrockway on Saturday October 22, 2016 @05:41PM (#12770697)
At least in my market, you get TV for free with the Internet, or rather, you can't buy Internet access unless you also pay for TV.

And don't say there's no competition, because I could totally in theory get 3Mbps DSL for the same price as 300Mbps cable.

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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by narrowrail on Saturday October 22, 2016 @06:31PM (#12770861)
>don't say there's no competition, because I could ...get 3Mbps DSL for the same price as 300Mbps cable.

1/10th the speed is proof of competition? Poe's Law strikes again!

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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by jrockway on Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:39PM (#12771120)
That's 1/100th, and the word "totally" in my comment indicates sarcasm.
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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by lostlogin on Saturday October 22, 2016 @10:15PM (#12771528)
You don't get tv with internet in my region and I also can't get fibre. Slow DSL is all I can get.
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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by wiseleo on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:43AM (#12777053)
F1 is timed for British viewers. I used to watch the events live over the web. No commercials and no delays. They almost invariably started at 5am on Saturday (Pacific time) for practice. I would post things on Twitter in #F1 before US viewers even saw the video due to network video delay of about 7 seconds. ;)
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