It's too much, people won't buy it. If you are paying $50 or $60 for cable. People aren't going to pay 40% of that to have 3 or 4 ESPN channels if they are dropping cable. I think HBO is the first to branch out and I think it is $5 and I still wouldn't buy it. There is no way ESPN is getting anything close to $20 per cable viewer. The number is surely less than $5. They might push it to $10, but that would be pushing it, especially when I can already get some ESPN streaming for free. There is no doubt, TV is going to change radically over the next five years. It will be interesting if DirecTV, Dish and the cables don't start to drop rates, because they are going to go the way of Blockbuster video unless they make a radical change.trainman wrote:I would expect more along the lines of $20-$25 monthly for an ESPN live-streaming package. (I suspect it's going to cannibalize a significant number of cable/satellite subscribers, and they've got to make that money back somehow.)Sherm wrote:Give it a year or two, and I'll be able to purchase the ESPN package, you can see it's coming, and it will probably cost 5 or 10 bucks.
Sorry to Hijack the thread little bit, but I find this kind of stuff interesting. The world does keep changing and what we are used to keeps evolving. I grew up on three TV channels in a world that was pre-cable. I remember first getting cable and about 15 stations in the late 70's in our small town. We thought it was great. A kid these days would call that package torture.
