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  • tanchl
    Rookie
    • Jan 2012
    • 366

    #1

    Dish's Sling TV Announcement

    Targeting millennials and people who don't want a full pay-TV package, Dish offers up a cheap live TV service that's viewable on a variety of streaming video devices and includes ESPN, Disney Channel, and CNN.


    This is how I feel cable/satellite will attempt to keep even a partial customer instead of no customer. This is a start imo; I want to get rid of my satellite so badly. Spending so much money each month for a whole lot of nothing.
  • Phobia
    Hall Of Fame
    • Jan 2008
    • 11623

    #2
    Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

    This makes me very happy if they had a $20 sports channel package. Then I could spend the $20 on that and $10 on Hulu. $30 to $50 for TV is way better than the $130 I have been paying AND I'm with DISH currently!
    Last edited by Phobia; 01-06-2015, 12:36 PM.

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    • Brandwin
      Hall Of Fame
      • Jul 2002
      • 30621

      #3
      Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

      I wouldn't mind cutting the cord on cable as well. Are a lot of you all using Amazon Fire or Chromecast? We have three tv's, so I am just curious how people with multiple tv's are going about?

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      • Stu
        All Star
        • Jun 2004
        • 7924

        #4
        Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

        Originally posted by Brandwin
        I wouldn't mind cutting the cord on cable as well. Are a lot of you all using Amazon Fire or Chromecast? We have three tv's, so I am just curious how people with multiple tv's are going about?
        I have both. I find the Amazon Fire is easier to use since it comes with a remote but the Netflix app constantly buffers.
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        • tanchl
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          • Jan 2012
          • 366

          #5
          Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

          Originally posted by Phobia
          This makes me very happy if they had a $20 sports channel package. Then I could spend the $20 on that and $10 on Hulu. $30 to $50 for TV is way better than the $130 I have been paying AND I'm with DISH currently!
          This is me too. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon is in addition to my stupid satellite bill and we watch those 3 along with HBOGo (thanks Uncle Jerry) more.

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          • Master Live 013
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            • Oct 2013
            • 12327

            #6
            Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

            This is the beginning but there are like 20 more sports channels that I'm interest before I can cut the cord.

            A la carte is my wish.

            These are baby steps.
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            • bigbob
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              • Sep 2007
              • 10471

              #7
              Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

              All I would need is for them to add AMC and I'd be all over it. I'd get rid of everything except basic cable.
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              • Phobia
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                • Jan 2008
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                #8
                Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

                Originally posted by bigbob
                All I would need is for them to add AMC and I'd be all over it. I'd get rid of everything except basic cable.
                Hopefully one of these "add on" packages would have AMC and Bravo because my wife will having a damn conniption fit if she does not have her Bravo.

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                • Scott
                  Your Go-to TV Expert
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 20032

                  #9
                  Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

                  NimbleTV still kicks SlingTVs ***...
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                  • mestevo
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                    • Apr 2010
                    • 19556

                    #10
                    Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

                    Originally posted by Scott
                    NimbleTV still kicks SlingTVs ***...
                    What's your experience with each? App/device availability by itself puts NimbleTV at a pretty big disadvantage. They also don't support my providers.

                    NimbleTV plans start at $30, but it's not clear what the packages are or what channels are included unless you click through all the categories individually because the site won't show me anything else because it doesn't support my provider.

                    Not a lot of *** kicking going on at a glance, so what am I missing?

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                    • Scott
                      Your Go-to TV Expert
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 20032

                      #11
                      Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

                      Originally posted by mestevo
                      What's your experience with each? App/device availability by itself puts NimbleTV at a pretty big disadvantage. They also don't support my providers.

                      NimbleTV plans start at $30, but it's not clear what the packages are or what channels are included unless you click through all the categories individually because the site won't show me anything else because it doesn't support my provider.

                      Not a lot of *** kicking going on at a glance, so what am I missing?
                      On the contrary, you can have a total of 4 other logins on your account. Making your $130 bill a total of $26 per person. Theres also already a iOS app, along with a Roku one and they're working on Android too...
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                      • bradtxmale
                        Banned
                        • Aug 2006
                        • 1865

                        #12
                        Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

                        Yeah I spend about $90 a month on my current cable TV service. It would be great, I could get this.

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                        • CMH
                          Making you famous
                          • Oct 2002
                          • 26203

                          #13
                          Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

                          Originally posted by bigbob
                          All I would need is for them to add AMC and I'd be all over it. I'd get rid of everything except basic cable.
                          Yes indeed.

                          I already don't pay for cable so I'm interested in this but wish it had AMC. At least for now AMC gets its programming onto netflix at some point.

                          Watching live sports on ESPN and TNT would be really nice.

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                          • Mo
                            SSN
                            • May 2003
                            • 11425

                            #14
                            Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

                            It's $20 per TV(receiver) So if you have more than 1 TV this probably isnt worth it.
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                            • TheMatrix31
                              RF
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 52908

                              #15
                              Re: Dish's Sling TV Announcement

                              Streaming live TV over the internet sounds like a great idea until your internet goes down randomly during the Super Bowl and you miss an hour and a half of the game.

                              Would be nice if it worked exactly like normal cable/satellite, but as of now there's no substitute for those as much as I'd love there to be.

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