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Comment by johns | Hacker News Reader

Major sports are the last thing keeping me tied to my satellite dish. Once I can get any game live online, it's gone.

Me too.

I'm not sure how long it will be before we get all the sports I care about (pro and college football and basketball, and mlb baseball) streaming HD live at reasonable subscription prices, but I can't wait.

It seems like you could do a combination of subscription Hulu Plus, Netflix, and the eventual streaming sports options, and still come up well below what cable charges for HD digital service.

Maybe the "Al a Carte Cable" model that many consumers want will come in the form of some online service, or at least the threat of such a service forces the cable companies to rethink their strategies.

Yep. I canceled DirecTV last May, and major sports is the only thing I miss.

Totally agree. After I cut my cable cord, the only thing I miss is live sports event. If this deal goes through, Google TV will become more attractive.

Same here. Although I do find myself going to bars a lot more now.

Tivo will eventually fall to the scrap heap as well. Why Tivo something when I can just click a link to the archive?

Because the archive isn't guaranteed to be there for ever and always? Look at Hulu; they only show you like what, 2 weeks of back episodes?

I think this is one of the most overlooked considerations as we all transition to the cloud. What if we all buy in completely to these services but then, one day, Netflix, Hulu, et al (or the content owners) decide to remove a few shows/movies from their catalog?

At least with downloaded (DRM-free) media, I will always be able to play the files I paid for. No such guarantees with cloud services.

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