“The Future of TV Isn’t Apps. We Need All Our Channels in One Place” by Gary Miller was dead on! I personally use the Apple TV to watch Netflix and my amazon fire stick that is jailbroken to watch movies and television shows unless I want to use the xfinity app that my cousin allows me to use with his password so that I know I am getting the best quality possible. With the xfinity app sometimes I have to restart my macbook so that I can use airplay, and if I forget and pause the show for too long, yep you guessed it! The screen goes blank and it takes a while to come back on. Once I started reading this article I felt like the author was describing my struggle because some nights I don’t feel like loading up the fire stick or going to input 3 just so I can watch a movie or a show. It get’s tedious and in this generation we like the easiest way possible so it would be nice to be able to watch everything you want to watch on 1 application. Convenience plays a MAJOR role. All this juggling through different apps gets a little overwhelming sometimes. Last week I saw 5 minutes of Fast & Furious 6 and said to myself “I want to watch this from the beginning but on HBO GO” (I also get that free from my cousin) I didn’t want to watch it on “Kodi” because I didn’t feel like going through the waiting process or not finding the best quality but when I checked HBO GO and Netflix they didn’t have it. If there was 1 app I could have watched the movie without all the hassle.
“The Future of Cable TV is Here, Can Cable Survive” by Greg Satell
I feel subscription’s are the way to go. The only reason I keep my cable is because of Football and Sports Center….if there is a way that I can watch “PTI” on “ESPNGO” along with all the sports games I want in HD quality I would be more inclined to get rid of cable. Everybody always says that they ways to watch sports in great quality but as of now I have only seen NBA TV in a clear picture. I think cable is declining due to the high prices and the availability of subscriptions, I just think for me keeping cable is like a security blanket. It’s a struggle during football season for me to find someone with NFL network and barter with them to let me get the subscription on my device and I pay the difference. Hopefully in class tomorrow I find a better way!
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I am also for subscriptions and having instant access to premium content. I think cable will eventually fade away as well because of high prices and more channels that are not being viewed.