32 Comments

1. 

   @hamzabayazid7786

   January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

   Niche is very important. AMC is doing very good job playing the smart curation game.

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   @Jude13able

   January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

   People who think like Stephen Battaglio is the reason why cable TV has just been exceed by streaming services in viewership. These old people are dinosaurs who refuse to adapt to change.

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   @Jude13able

   January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

   The bell is tolling for Cable

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   @terrykropog9611

   January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

   I HATE ROSEANNE DEATH TO ROSEANNE (THE TV SHOW) ONE OF THE MOST BLASPHEMOUS TV SHOWS EVER TO BE PUT ON TV !!!!!! REPENT AMERICA FOR EVER WATCHING ROSEANNE!!!! GOD's JUDGEMENT IS COMING TO ALL WHOEVER LIKED OR WATCHED ROSEANNE!!!!! from South Louisiana,

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5. 

   @sukmydikgoogle5666

   January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

   The cost of living is so high now even for interntaiment and online streaming, I just usually go to McDonald's near me use the WiFi, hack their network restrictions with a good VPN, and just pirate and down load with torrents. So I can pretty much watch almost anything for free later on my laptop.

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   @FBcruzz

   January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

   cable will die and these millionaires will need new jobs.

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   @patarp1350

   January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

   Sad cable is fading while Europe cable is increasing. There is still value in cable and I hope people can come back, as it learns form Europe.

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   @michaellouque8054

   January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

   My TV is connected to the internet, I do not need traditional cable, they are too expensive.

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9. 

   @skurtzke

   January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

   This aged like milk omg

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10. 

    @brandongovreau9218

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    You do realize you're not under contract with your internet provider it's not like you're forced to get streaming services some people just get what they want when it comes to streaming services not to mention nowadays there's the cloud gaming Services that's like streaming but for video games

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11. 

    @jacob31993

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Paid subscription services and an antenna. Only pay for internet.

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12. 

    @totalspoof8344

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Is this audio off or does everyone keep talking over everyone else?

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13. 

    @aserilaing3401

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    They literally got two dinosaurs to talk about modern media ?? #whereistheyoungpeople

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14. 

    @derulocruz8217

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    nonsence. cable tv is now dying

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15. 

    @ediktorek1322

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    My Take, that TV is using oldest Video Codecs, and they are doing it on purpose in order to stop competition,
    and as Result all TV market is dying:
    Free To Air Mainstream TV were leading in technical image quality up to MPEG-4, HDTV and BluRay times designated for mass market.
    And when BluRay was novelty screen size were still small, and big size were expensive.
    Nowadays even big 8K resolution screens are sold.
    However since a lot of TV broadcasting station are trying to force or coerce viewers into paid subscription.
    Commercial Free To Air DTTV is available in a lot of countries only in SDTV resolution,
    and using so much outdated video codec: MPEG-2. Whereas many private and commercial HDTV are very often encrypted and paid.
    And on contemporary Big screens you can notice much more easily flaws of SDTV.
    I have seen a lot of switch off to just MPEG-4 on Free to Air Satellite TV from MPEG-2 SDTV just recent years.
    After years of availability of better quality in Free YT VOD.
    Where as even mobile phones have capability to capture film in 4k UHD resolution.
    And even popular "Free" VOD service YT offers films in FHD and 60Hz fps which is using latest AV1 video coding of the same efficiency as HEVC/H.265.

    And there is next generation video codec available: VVC.
    And there are materials in 4K UHD and 8K on YT and 60Hz fps.

    You could check that on such website monitoring TV like kingofsat.
    There is plenty of Free To Air Satellite TV in MPEG-2 in countries like:
    UK, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine,RAI Italian Public Broadcaster still broadcast in MPEG-2 and SDTV resolution

    There are not many Satellite TV Broadcasting HEVC/H.265 or AV1, and they would need to broadcast in at about 10Mb/s in order to have comparable quality to free YT VOD service. Using low quality and outdated video codecs for first world is also used not just to promote paid encrypted HDTV which are also broadcast in old MPEG-4. It is also done to try halt / stop/ hinder the competition on TV market. Because if Satellite TV would use newest AV1 or HEVC/H.265 or VVC there would be even 16x times lower market entry cost in for of contract per 1Mb/s per years on Satellite operators and it would mean 16x times greater competition and 16x times better image quality.

    MPEG-4 AVC H264 is 200% more effective as MPEG-2 H262, as it give 50% saving in bandwidth
    AV1 or MPEG-H HEVC H265 is 400% more effective as MPEG-2 H262, as it give 75% saving in bandwidth
    MPEG-I VVC H266 is 800% more effective as MPEG-2 H262, as it give 87% saving in bandwidth
    400% ^= 4x times as much competition in quality or number of Stations
    800% ^= 8x times as much competition in quality or number of Stations

    Combining those video codecs with MPEG-5 part2 = LC EVC could give even further 2x times effectiveness or 50% savings.
    However this is only reserved for savings on simulcast for different resolution or fps or at least different On Screen Language Textual Information TV Broadcast.
    For example: instead bill for SDTV and HDTV, one can broadcast SDTV with MPEG-5 part2 = LC EVC layer that can be decoded as HDTV on MPEG-5 part2 = LC EVC compatible receivers.
    The same for different couples of resolutions or fps: HDTV, UHDTV, 8K resolutions.
    Some would argue that plenty if most of viewers does not care for image quality, that may be true. However even if you (contemporary mainstream TV station) would increase quality by changing video codec to the newest, there would be plany of low quality of SD, thanks to lower TV Broadcast market entry level cost. Watching TV would be still popular and viable, however it could mean it would not be watching your TV. And for you (contemporary mainstream TV station) it is all that count.

    However there are objective reasons and independent of why TV station could not switch TV broadcasting video codec: Due to many TV station viewership is counted in %, so you may not know if all your viewers are using old reception receivers with only old codecs. However I suppose it is not true for a lot of Western markets like: Germany, Swiss, Austria, UK, USA, Italy. FTA DTTV Station in these countries can broadcast several Satellite TV broadcast for different Designated Television Market Areas. I suppose they could diversify video Codecs for different Designated Television Market Areas. That would be most doubtful for USA. They had money for separate TV Broadcast bandwidth streams, but they had not for separate video codecs. I am speaking about situation Germany DTMA could broadcast in MPEG-2, Swiss DTMA in MPEG-4 and Austrian DTMA in HEVC/H.265. This would allow a little bit more competition, but could potentially increase client based of paid HDTV compatible HEVC/H.265 receivers.

    Another there are objective reasons and independent of why TV station could not switch TV broadcasting video codec easily: because in case DTTV there is law who decide for example once in decade about video codec standard on DTTV, because there is limited bandwidth for OTA Broadcasts. In case of Satellite TV there is not as much limited bandwidth, but the bandwidth just as mentioned before bandwidth is more expensive for competition the older video codec is commonly used. However in case of Satellite TV no collusion of competing companies is allowed as it would be seen as decreasing competition price /trade collusion against clients market: viewers wallet. However if Satellite TV were allowed to publicly decide which video codecs used to what point they could do it and adopt newest codecs much faster.

    Other arguments are protecting poor. This could be valid argument, but not for Western countries, where receivers cost about 1day of work of minimum wage worker. Even in poor countries such receiver does not cost too much due to global minimization of prices, much when the consideration is taken, that for vast poor areas of: Russia, China even USA there is no High Speed internet to compete. However news about newer receivers could be mainly distributed by available Satellite TV or DDTV which are interested in maintaining status quo of their market share.

    And there is falling to ground public rating in TV news service trust.

    And you can not have inferior technical quality and no trust.

    In order to compensate for lack of trust a lot of news channels would need to broadcast in 4k UHD Resolution and even 8k resolution.
    And such lack of trust can not be fully compensated.
    It could have been prevented or just only slowed down if the better technical quality was available FTA long before trust poles fallen so low.

    Resuming, FTA TV station Broadcast ceased to be Top technical of quality as it always were through out history up to:
    MPEG-4, HDTV and BluRay times designated for mass market.

    And TV is socially viewed down and disregarded as dumbing down, and is first time in lower quality than free VOD who are looked up.
    It is independently of objective reality, it does not need to be so, that people look wiser content on free VOD that on FTA TV.
    It is simply perceived that they can watch smarter, wiser and even better technical quality content on free VOD that on FTA TV.
    One can argue that people need to pay for access to internet, where as FTA can be free indeed.
    However most people would pay for internet access just like pay for phone, and other stuff independently if they would use it for media consumption.
    (Yes media consumption can make them pay more).
    However FTA DTTV & Satellite TV is cheaper in broadcast for massive market than VOD servers and massive ip traffic.
    (When designed for low viewership VOD can be cheaper)

    PS:
    I was in shock, that paying $200 per month for cable,
    They did not gave them newest video decoder receiver for $50 with newest HEVC = H265 = mpegH or AV1 for free, as taking care for faithful subscriber.

    And Terrestrial Free To Air TV channels could broadcast in 4K UHD using 2xMiMo = muxing both Horizontal & Vertical Polarization and using newest VVC = H266 = MPEGi with LC EVC = Mpeg5 part2 video coding. (9 UHDTV channels per one Mux in dvbT2)

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16. 

    @Obkev

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    All you need is YouTube TV ,Disney Plus, & Netflix that trio destroys all else unless you are specifically wanting to watch a particular show like game of thrones for example which is only on hbo

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    @cableapostle

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    CNN and FOX media news is more turning and influential to baby boomers than RAP music.

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18. 

    @ayubaalim2201

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    energy ……………..energy…………………..energy matters

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19. 

    @LuisMorales-bu3qk

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Boomers "CaBlE IsNT DyING" Pepelaugh

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20. 

    @adamkalb1

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    I still watch traditionally broadcast television! I like watching reruns in the middle of the day and having my childhood channels pick for me what to watch because – if it is a show I haven't seen, I want to see what it is like. If it is a show that I have seen, I will probably enjoy re-visiting some old episodes of Spongebob Squarepants, Phineas and Ferb, or Star vs. the Forces of Evil. September 10, 2020, 5:16pm

    The only thing holding me back is the fact that my original cable stopped working in the middle of 2018 and we needed a Roku box. I learned how to use the remote eventually, and I know how to look through the grid, but now I do not have any time to look through TV because of my online college courses.

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    @shanestrickland8481

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Only if people in the cable business would not have the same damn thing on all day it might be worth it.

    Video streaming services are better in this regard.

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22. 

    @timothymckey9633

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Death reaper!

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23. 

    @timothymckey9633

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Upgrade or die!

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24. 

    @timothymckey9633

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Entire cable company held hostage!

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    @darkpaw1522

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    My reccomendation: Find 2 streaming services and stick to it. Everything else is extra you'll never use.

    For example I have: Hulu and Netflix.

    Is there shows I want to watch elsewhere? Yes. But I'm not going to spend money on another subscription for one show. 90% of my favorite shows are on those two platforms. Even theb not like I'd ever have enough time in a day to watch everything, and I literally play video games for a living.

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26. 

    @maxrockwell7613

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    I watched your show on YouTube as most all my other news programs. Why do I need cable?

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27. 

    @manutdfan348

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Cable TV is irrelevant like the newspaper industry. Only old people buy news papers.

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28. 

    @jdsoto492

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    this guys are fossils

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29. 

    @sunnybright8206

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Clearly these guys have stock in a cable company lol listen you educated idiots, if these companies continue to go up then more people will leave Netflix too and another cheaper company will come and gain our business the same way Netflix did to cable. We’re not as dumb as our parents ya know 🙄 we’re not just going to cave in to big companies just because. Netflix is not immune to failing if they act up! And stop trying to fool people Netflix only went up because they started to give so much more.

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30. 

    @Zaya2499

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    I want tv to die because that will bring an end to big traditional media that is top down controlled. I want independent media to report what they want, not what they are told to report. A more genuine media.

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31. 

    @infinitycrops

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    Every time I see someone say it’s just like cable TV, I wonder if they’re a shill. You aren’t locked into contracts. So you can turn stuff on for a few months (football season; game of thrones, etc) then turn if off again when there’s nothing worth watching.

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32. 

    @shomoy7396

    January 3, 2024 at 12:53 am

    It’s trash because you have to pay for cable but still be forced to watch advertisement

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