What Is Live Streaming HDTV Service?

By Scott Klein

The new buzz in the TV and media space is "Live Streaming HDTV." Let me say this before I answer that question: "In the next 2-3 years Live Streaming HDTV will out subscribe the Dish and Cable."

So, what exactly is live streaming TV service? As opposed to receiving service from a satellite dish or a cable running through your house your TV service "streams" through your Internet connection. So if you don't have an internet connection then you can't stream.

Assuming that you have the internet all you do is download an app that will have all the live streaming channels. Like any other app that you download, that has certain functions and abilities the app that you'd download to stream will access all the main channels that you already watch.

Let's say that you like to watch TBS. Your current provider allows you to watch TBS as one of their channels. Your live streaming service will also include that channel. In fact, from my experience, the live streaming services give you a much bigger "Bang for the buck" than dish and cable.

With dish and cable you would normally get about 200 channels, but with live streaming, you can get over 500. With the likes of DirecTV and Dish Network they start you off at a basic package for a low introductory price, but when you see that most of what you want to watch isn't in that package you have to upgrade to get the channels you want.

When you upgrade your bill goes up as well. For most people that have Comcast cable, Xfinity, AT&T, or Charter Communications your bill will run over $100 a month. But if you download any of their movies that they offer then your bill starts going up.

For people that download or watch movies that they stream from their current provider your bill can easily go over $200 a month. With the streaming services, they include movies on demand which mean your bill doesn't go up. Personally, we were paying over $200 a month with DirecTV (we rented a lot of movies every month), and our current bill is less than $50 each month.

But with our current service, we also get all the major sports channels like MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, plus all the premium movie channels like HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, and Starz.

Also, there are no activation fees, no cancellation fees, no contracts and no credit checks. This is definitely the wave of the future. I look at it like a landline telephone... most people don't have one anymore because cellular and wireless service replaced the need to have a landline.

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