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[QUOTE=&quot;ATL Royals, post: 158401, member: 100750&quot;]I wonder if Dish's total includes the <a href="http://www.sling.com">Sling streaming service</a> that it bought awhile back.&nbsp; That's how I get my pay TV channels.&nbsp; It's $20-25 for 30-40 channels--more per channel than cable, but a lot less than most cable bills and a much higher percentage of channels I actually want!I can mix-and-match packages instead of just adding more channels.&nbsp; So, $5/month for the full ESPN and NBC Sports package.&nbsp; $5 per month for a package that includes 5 EPIX networks and Sundance Channel (my girlfriend wanted to watch &quot;The A-Word&quot;).&nbsp; No contract, cancel any package at any time.&nbsp; So, I add sports during football season.&nbsp; And, I can set the picture quality to a level that won't spike even my old 250GB data cap (now at 600GB and it's going up to 1TB starting August 21).&nbsp; With the packages I've added, I actually pay $45/month.&nbsp; Slightly more than if I bundled U-Verse, but again, no contract, and I can quickly and easily drop it to only $20 if I want.Pay TV is dying, and Millenials and Gen-Xers are leading the way into streaming, and Gen-Xers and Boomers are getting more involved in OTA, with some Millenials waking up to OTA's offerings.&nbsp; Pay TV will be changing, and the Pay TV providers' only response is to incentivize people to get Pay TV, such as NBC-Comcast's requirement that you have a qualifying (non-streaming) cable/satellite subscription to stream the Olympics on their mobile app.&nbsp; Standard Operating Procedure for a mature, declining industry.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="ATL Royals, post: 158401, member: 100750"]I wonder if Dish's total includes the [URL="http://www.sling.com"]Sling streaming service[/URL] that it bought awhile back. That's how I get my pay TV channels. It's $20-25 for 30-40 channels--more per channel than cable, but a lot less than most cable bills and a much higher percentage of channels I actually want! I can mix-and-match packages instead of just adding more channels. So, $5/month for the full ESPN and NBC Sports package. $5 per month for a package that includes 5 EPIX networks and Sundance Channel (my girlfriend wanted to watch "The A-Word"). No contract, cancel any package at any time. So, I add sports during football season. And, I can set the picture quality to a level that won't spike even my old 250GB data cap (now at 600GB and it's going up to 1TB starting August 21). With the packages I've added, I actually pay $45/month. Slightly more than if I bundled U-Verse, but again, no contract, and I can quickly and easily drop it to only $20 if I want. Pay TV is dying, and Millenials and Gen-Xers are leading the way into streaming, and Gen-Xers and Boomers are getting more involved in OTA, with some Millenials waking up to OTA's offerings. Pay TV will be changing, and the Pay TV providers' only response is to incentivize people to get Pay TV, such as NBC-Comcast's requirement that you have a qualifying (non-streaming) cable/satellite subscription to stream the Olympics on their mobile app. Standard Operating Procedure for a mature, declining industry.[/QUOTE]

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