Sony's ambitious cable cutting service PlayStation Vue has started streaming nationwide in the United States. Prices for the PlayStation-based television platform, which fuses live TV with on-demand catch-up content, will start at $29.99 per month – though there will be more expensive tiers for those who want additional channels.
The downside is that the platform holder's currently only offering 'Slim' plans outside of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, and Miami. This means that you'll only get access to on-demand content from ABC, FOX, and NBC – it would appear that television licensing in 'Murica is one gargantuan ball ache.
There's a lot more information on this via the service's official website. Are you planning to give it a try, or is this still not offering the channels that you want? Do you feel that the price is too high? Are you desperate to cut your cable subscription? Tune in or tune out in the comments section below.
[source blog.us.playstation.com]
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I think Now TV over here in the UK is slowly going to crush a lot of other services. The sport package is terrible but for Entertainment and Films it's pretty good. Especially when you keep getting offers every time you leave I'm getting the two packages for a total of £8.98 per month right now. It makes Vue look terrible. Now TV just needs the option to download stuff to watch on the go, you can't always get a decent connection.
It's still too high for us, but we don't watch that much tv. And what we do watch is on The CW. My cable TV package is $48 per month and that includes On Demand with limited commercials for all the shows we watch. There's not just enough savings so no reason to switch. I need to pay the cable company $55 per month now for internet, and that goes up to $60 if I drop tv, so there goes my savings.
I don't see how they charge so much while missing 1 of the 5 major networks. This may be a good offer for people currently without a cable package, but it's not good enough to switch. Though Comcast customers would probably disagree with me, they seem to be a horrible company.
Depends on the customer I suppose. So many people I know are so damn burnt out on the cable companies, and the insane headaches they create for little to no reason. I cut the cord from Time Warner a while ago, and get my high speed Internet through a different company that let's you pay month to month, no contract, no hidden fees and at a really low price. Use Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go (my friends and I all split the payments amongst us and use different logins) so I pay maybe 50 a month for all three of those services and internet. This looks appealing though and if the channels are right, I would cut Hulu and or HBO Go to.add this in. Main problem is we just don't watch much TV!
I'm going to give the trial a go. I don't get many over the air channels where I live, and to get cable is fairly pricey (probably at least $50/mo for the bare basic channels..).
Hulu+ has done me nicely, but there are a lot of really good channels I miss out on. If the basic Vue package works well for $29, it might be an easy choice for my girlfriend and I.
Wish they would have service like that over here but alas Sky.
I'm currently hunting for a house and I've been looking into what I want to do when it comes to Internet and tv. I don't really watch much tv so I don't have a real reason to spend a bunch of money with a cable company. This might be a good alternative but if they're missing the few channels I do watch we may have a problem
@Cowboysfan-22 be careful, streaming using a ton of bandwidtth, make sure where you move (if possible) the provider does not have a data cap. My provider isn't the most reliable, but the have good speeds 115/15 for 70 and no cap.
I signed up for it last night, have been waiting for it to come to my area (new england) for a while now. I got the highest tier for now, but will be changing to the middle tier after the trial. So far I'm pretty impressed, I really like that you can watch the last episode or 2 that aired. For 35 or 39 or whatever it is Its 2/3 of the price of basic cable with no dvr, in demand, etc. And I can do vue, with netflix and hulu and HBO now for around 65 a month. Not bad at all considering my basic cable was around 100 with no extras or even the majority of channels I watched. Good move by sony, I hope it really catches on.
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