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Apple Said To Be Working On a Pay TV Service
walterbyrd writes Apple is in talks with TV programmers to put together its own over-the-top pay TV service, Recode says. According to the site's industry sources, Apple's proposed service would be comprised of bundles of programming, secured through deals with content providers and sold direct to consumers, rather than a full TV lineup. Apple has reportedly already shown demonstrations of the proposed service to people in charge of TV programming, but Recode says the talks 'seem to be in early stages,' with the pricing and release date still yet to be set.
If I pay for TV I expect NO COMMERCIALS. PERIOD!
Hulu thinks if they show me the same commercial every 5 minutes that somehow I won't despise them and their advertiser.
99% of all TV shows are available for purchase on Apple TV at exorbitant prices, but they are there...
Here is hoping that they have an ala-carte version that is affordable in the $9.00 a month price point like Hulu Plus
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Someone else is already offering this sort of service (Sling TV).
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Everyone in America at this point knows if it says Apple, don't get into it in the first place. It's like a black hole. Once you're inside, you're stuck and that's that.
I'm all for freedom of choice. But if you have to pay for a half dozen different monthly services to get the content you want it's really not about choice anymore. It's about how much they can gouge from you. Why not just offer single show subscriptions? Or pay as you watch?
In case you don't know what "over the top" means in this context, this is from Wikipedia:
In broadcasting, over-the-top content (OTT) refers to delivery of audio, video, and other media over the Internet without the involvement of a multiple-system operator in the control or distribution of the content. (A multiple-system operator or multi-system operator (MSO) is an operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems.)
So, apparently, it just means streaming media over the Internet.
Even though I'm in a well-populated area, we have only two viable providers, and they both suck badly. I welcome competition from Apple so that they can't slack as much.
One feature I'd really like to see is single channel subscriptions. I don't want to have to pay $25 more for the next level JUST to get one stinkin' channel. Bundling drives me crazy.
If I can cherry-pick channels I want at about $7 or less per channel, then I'll be knocking at Tim Cook's door to get it.
Or even pay-per-show over bundling. I don't watch much TV. Apple has the negotiating power to thumb the bundlers.
F forced bundling.
Table-ized A.I.
The Apple TV doesn't exist?
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Why is this news worthy of geeks? Apple - may or may not be doing something - but it is too early to tell what - and they may not actually be doing it, and if they are it may or may not be with an iDevice. But we can't tell.
Look - Apple Watch!!
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All the TV and movies you could ever watch, no commercials, and they're yours forever.
It's only a 'hobby'. It's not a real product.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
It's only a 'hobby'. It's not a real product.
Not anymore, according to Tim Cook...
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Only a legitimate Apple TV should be considered here.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
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legitimate apple TV? Is that anything like legitimate rape?
The problems with streamed TV have been more mental and legal rather than technical.
I am NOT trying to be a cheerleader for sling (Even though I've posted about it in this thread 3 times), but its roll out this week is a key event. The fact that cable TV channels have not played well with online TV up to this point and Dish/Sling have now broken that psychological barrier is a big deal. I think traditional cable tv is going to have a hard time keeping the 40 and younger set, and they'll lose the more technical savvy oldsters as well.
You're wrong, as is the idiot trolling Wikipedia with his edit crusade and baseless essay. (I fully support any and all trolling of Wikipedia.)
Comprise is a transitive verb, like the word make. It originates from the Latin comprehendere. If you want to take up this clown's crusade you'll have to take up the same crusade against nearly every transitive verb there is.
Shit makes your posts.
Shit makes up your posts. (The "up" isn't necessary, but is common as it can disambiguate "Shit".)
Your posts are made of shit.
Your posts, being made of shit, are shitty.
Shit comprises your posts.
Your posts are comprised of shit.
Your posts, comprising shit, are shitty.
If you still don't get it, think about why a transitive verb is called a transitive verb.
I'm pretty open to trying out their service if it's good - but not if it means having to buy an Apple TV. Netflix, HBO Go, etc, seem to have the right idea: offer the service and build the client for just about anything with an internet connection.
I typically use an Amazon FireTV downstairs and my PS4 in my bedroom to run my other video services. I have no interest in replacing them.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Sorry, but none of this stuff is "renting" anything - you don't pay for a specific show on Netflix or the like. You pay a flat rate for "all you can eat" content. I have no qualms with DRM applied to such content because I'm not buying it.
If you go to a chinese buffet you don't get to take extra plates home for dinner (not without paying for them anyways). Same concept.
Frankly, the "unlimited" access model works very well for me. It's far easier to budget for (non-variable monthly cost) and I can watch as much or as little as I want without having to worry about racking up a bill.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
"Apple's proposed service would comprise of bundles of programming"
Essentially this means to get the one program you'll want to watch you'll have to buy a bunch you'll never watch. When are they going to learn that many of us are not paying for cable specifically because of the model used to extort us for more money than the programming is worth to us?
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
TL;DR.
Convince the dictionaries to change their minds, and I will too. For now they recognize such usage only as "nonstandard" or "idiomatic."
The proper usage of a word comprises that specified in the dictionary.
The original and erroneous post states, "[the] service would comprise of bundles," which is an improper construction regardless of the subject/object relationship. It could "comprise" or "be comprised of," but it could not "comprise of."
The irony, as I said, is that the OP has the subject/object in the proper order, he just has that errant "of" in there.
I wonder if he didn't read the recent Wikipedia article here on Slashdot and try for a play on it. =) He almost got it. Were it not for that post, this stuff wouldn't be so fresh in my mind either.
Shit comprises your posts.
Your posts are comprised of shit.
Switch "shit" and "your posts" in each of your sentences, and you're grammatically correct. Otherwise, if your shit really does comprise posts, you best see a proctologist ASAP.
=)
Since when did that mean you should put "of" after it? I've obviously been doing of it wrong all these years. Maybe I need of to read of a grammar book.
English and Latin are different. *I* know this because one is my native language and I studied the other at school.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."