From: jecorbett4@gmail.com   
      
   NBC is gambling their $110 million investment to get a playoff game to be   
   shown exclusively on their streaming service is going to payoff spectacularly   
   in new subscriptions. I hope they fail spectacularly. I'm a Chiefs fan but I'm   
   not going to pony up. Instead, I will record the game when it is replayed on   
   the   
   NFL Network overnight. I'll watch it Sunday morning. I'll just have to stay off   
   the internet so I don't accidentally learn how the game turned out.   
      
   Another option, which I used last summer to watch the Open Championship   
   in golf was get a free one week trial subscription to Peacock. I couldn't get   
   the local NBC affiliate due to a contract dispute with DirecTV so I signed up   
   for Peacock and cancelled after the Open.   
      
   If NBC succeeds in getting a lot of new Peacock subscribers, we can count   
   on more and more playoff games only being available on streamed subscription   
   services. Maybe someday even the Super Bowl will be pay-per-view. Maybe   
   the CFP playoffs will only be available on pay TV.   
      
   One other reason why I won't pay for streaming service is my only internet   
   option right now is satellite internet which is too low to stream high   
   definition TV without buffering. I have to stream at lower definition. Data   
   caps are also too low to stream more than a few games a month.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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