Looks
like the Cable TV Content Providers are also coming under pressure from Streaming
Services like Netflix. Slowly, one by
one, they’re announcing the rollout of Streaming versions of their Content without the need to be a subscriber to
their bloated Cable TV packaged beforehand.
CBS
was the first to launch a Streaming Cable Service without a Cable subscription called
CBS All Access costing only US$5.99
per month as announced on Thursday
October 16th 2014 the article “CBS
becomes first major network to launch internet TV Service”, published
October 16, 2014 10:09 am by Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge and “Watch
out, HBO: CBS launches standalone Web TV Service”, published 16, 2014 6:00
AM PDT by Joan E. Solsman, CNET News.
Coincidentally,
HBO CEO Richard Plepler, one day before on Wednesday October 15th
2014, had also announced plans for HBO to do the very same thing come January
2015 as stated in “It’s
Not TV. And It’s Not Cable. It’s HBO, Online”, published Oct. 15, 2014 by
James Poniewozik, Time and “Look
out, cable TV, Netflix! Here comes HBO to the Internet”, published October
15, 2014 -- 18:55 GMT (11:55 PDT) By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet.
So
apparently this idea of Streaming to smartphone, Tablet, Laptop or Desktop
computer is now a “thing”, as Streaming begins to pick up for BOTH Digital Music
and Videos as noted originally in my blog article
entitled “Nielsen
Stats record continued decline in Music Downloads - Developed World Streaming
will catch on in Developed World once we get 4G LTE”.
Especially
as many of these Cable Content Providers are losing customers to a la carte Streaming Services provided by Netflix and Amazon.
Many
families with Teenagers (ages 13 to 17) and Millennials (ages 18 to 28) are now
opting to stream content from online video providers like YouTube
over 4G LTE and Fiber Optic Services as explained in my blog article
entitled “RIAA
Stats on Music Streaming – Why 4G LTE and Cheaper Cloud Storage means downloads
extinct”.
CBS All Access goes live
in the US of A - HBO to Stream by 2015 in a bid to beat Netflix
Americans,
your prayers for access to Streaming content as shown on Cable TV sans a
subscription to a Cable TV package as a pre-qualifier has finally been
answered.
Over
six thousand, five hundred (6,500) past and current show titles with the
exception of the Big Bang Theory and NFL Games will be available in the
following cities initially via the CBS
All Access Platform:
1.
Baltimore
2.
Boston
3.
Chicago
4.
Dallas
5.
Denver
6.
Detroit
7.
Los Angeles
8.
Miami
9.
Minneapolis
10.
New York
11.
Philadelphia
12.
Pittsburgh
13.
Sacramento
14.
San Francisco
This
is basically Streaming on any device be it a smartphone, Tablet, Laptop or
Desktop computer and most likely Roku TV when they become available to the
public by Black Friday which is Friday November 28th 2014 as
explained in my blog
article entitled “US$229
Roku TV from Hisense and TCL – Control your TV with your smartphone as
Smartphone Apps Control Streaming Television Glimpse of the Future”.
And
yes it’s an App, available on the Google
Play Store and the Apple
iTunes App Store, but apparently only for Americans and only in the select
locations, most likely via using your smartphone’s GPS (Global Positioning
Satellite) or ISP (Internet Service Provider) IP Address.
Jamaica and Streaming –
Local TV and Radio Stations not there yet as Digicel and LIME TV beckon
Here
in Jamaica we’re still twiddling our thumbs as neither of our local TV Stations,
Television Jamaica or CVM TV,
have opted to go the Streaming route but are taking a long time to rollout
their Services.
Despite
RJR Communications Group promising to launch
such a Service in October 2014 for a UNIV VOD (Video on Demand) Streaming Platform
for all of their Radio and Television Content called TVJ Everywhere as
described in my blog
article entitled “RJR
Communications Group Launching TVJ Everywhere - How Streaming TVJ Everywhere
will boost Advertising Revenue as Digicel and LIME TV coming”.
Ironically
a Telecom Provider may beat them to it as Telecom Provider Digicel here in
Jamaica has fleshed out plans for their own Caribbean wide Streaming TV Platform
as I’d originally predicted in my blog article
entitled “Digicel
completes Caribbean-wide Submarine Fiber Optic Acquisitions - 4G LTE launch of
Caribbean Streaming TV”.
Already,
they’d acquired Telstar Cable here in
Jamaica as a part of that Caribbean-wide push as reported in my blog article
entitled “Digicel
officially acquires Telstar Cable – Why Digicel is launching IPTV Streaming
over 4G LTE using 20 Years of Cable TV History”.
Digicel’s
as-yet named Service will initially be carrying Sports Programming from SportsMax that’ll be streamed over their
as-yet-to-be-launched 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) Network as explained in my blog article
entitled “Digicel
purchases SportsMax – Why No Games, Just Sports on Digicel's Streaming Cable TV
over Bigger, Better Network 4G LTE and FTTH”.
More
reason to get a proxy or a VPN (Virtual Private Network) account and stream
Cable TV as described in my blog article
entitled “Surfing
the Internet Anonymously using VPN - How to use Streaming Set Top Boxes over
VPN”.
As
for me, personally, my list of YouTube Channels has grown
considerably! Happy Streaming Americans on
CBS All Access as Christmas came
early for you!
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