For those who are dubius of streaming....

Got ahead of myself, wasn't paying attention. I'm not real good with the calendar these days. I worked 7 days a week with fluctuating schedules for decades. Now that I'm not, every day is a weekend day anymore.

Here lies the problem with streaming..Say I want to watch the Washington vs Michigan State game...gotta pay for Peacock..then next week I want to watch Team A vs Team B but it is only on Stream C...snd on and on...

I researched Peacock a bit, they have different levels of viewing, including free.  Several platforms have it as a free option - including Samsung TV.  Thankfully, I will be at Reser on Saturday, so I don't have to worry about it - lol

Thanks for the tip...I found hat the 'free' plan is no longer available for new subscribers...Although it does have a 'cancel any time...So I guess if one really wants to watch a game, sign up, watch. cancel. Like I did for ESPN+ during the college WS tourney....You have to pay for the whole month....i am pretty certain lots of people do just that...and eventually the providers will make it harder to do...

If puppies and sparties  were on ESPN, FOX, etc...i would watch tonight...but not spending $6 on Peacock to do so...

The way I look at it, had the Apple deal gone through, every Pac conference game and home OOC game likely would have been on that streaming channel. That is 1 service, 1 payment.

Most other games would have been on more traditional TV for the next 2-6 years or more because of existing media contracts. There's no telling if Apple may or may not have cut a deal with other services to show or have delay showings of the OOC away games, but they likely will be available elsewhere if I haven't cancelled everything else.

My suspicion is that, if the streaming is working for Apple, Apple will be competing for more and more media contracts as existing ones expire. Apple has the technological and financial advantage to win those future contracts. Apple could pick up the bulk of the important ones.

I would have happily purchased the Pac subscription channel, kept the stuff I already have, and seen everything. It still would be cheaper, or at least no more expensive, than the cable bill my wife and I were paying 3 years ago. I don't know if cable has come down in price for existing customers since then, we dropped them in favor of streaming because they wouldn't cut prices at the time.

At the time we had cable for internet and tv we did not have a basic package, we had to upgrade it significantly just to get the Pac-12 channel. We were paying a pile of money, and just keeping cable for internet and signing up for either SLING or FUBO (we've used both, prefer FUBO) got us everything we watched before and saved a lot of money. We could afford a few extra streaming options at that point and still saved money.


I think you may have mentioned something earlier about having a dial up connection, how are you watching non-over the air games now?