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Originally Posted by valo403
I watch quite a bit on hulu, particularly things that are on weeknights as I'm rarely home before 9, and utilize the free episodes that you can find on network sites.
Sports programming is very different though, largely becasue the fact that it's live matters. I hate PVRing a game, and I'm sure as hell not going to hunt around for my teams games and then have my feed drop out halfway through the third period (not to mention watching an out of market NFL game like I did this year and seeing my fantasy tracker update with scores from the same game 5 minutes before I saw them).
The debate isn't that watching online is no good, it's that replacing a revenue stream with the hope of a revenue stream is foolish.
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Sports programming is different for YOU but you're painting everyone with the same brush. I'm sure there are people who hates PVRing a show, and want to watch it on the day it airs.
As for the debate, replacing stream with the hope of a revenue stream is foolish and I agree except that the debate is replacing pirating streams (no revenue) with limited free stream (some revenue). And only thing that we're debating is (Current Subscription Revenue + 0 revenue from piracy) > or < (New Subscription based GC Revenue + some revenue from free stream)
Edit: Obviously Current Subscription Revenue > New Subscription Revenue but you have to take into account for the ad-funded free stream revenue.