Sling TV to Launch Live, Over-the-Top Service for $20 Per Month

• Sling TV to deliver the best of live TV including ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS, Food Network, HGTV, Cartoon Network and Disney Channel
• Service to feature Video-On-Demand programming and the best of online video with long- and short-form content from Maker Studios
• Core package priced at $20 per month; no commitment, contract, credit check or hardware installation required
• Supported devices expected to include Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Google’s Nexus Player, select LG Smart TVs, Roku players, Roku TV models, select Samsung Smart TVs, Xbox One from Microsoft, iOS, Android, Mac, PC

[Gh05t]

If only they added the major networks like FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC... I might be persuaded to jump all over this.

[lifeordeath617]

i was going to mention Digital Antenna but for the convenience. I definitely agree!

[Retroman]

20.00-a-month-not-a-bad-ideal- if-it'll-help-get-rid-of-- Comcrapycast.

[Sayburr]

Major Networks can be received, in most places, over the air for free...

But, I was mainly posting to add additional info: Users can tack on additional "packs" of channels for $5 each:

“Kids Extra” add-on with Disney Junior, Disney XD, Boomerang, Baby TV and Duck TV

“News & Info Extra" pack with HLN, Cooking Channel, DIY and Bloomberg TV.

The company says they're also working on a "Sports Extra" package, that will be available "soon."

http://www.dslreports.com/s...

AND, XboxWire says, "we’re excited to announce that all Xbox Live members will get an exclusive extended free trial for one month at launch"

[Dudebro90]

Awesome. Cut the cable!

[ScorpiusX]

Sweet bring it on, more options.

[Julion0715]

I think this will be great now ppl can pay for what they wanna watch instead of paying cable companies a bunch of money for crap channels when we only get cable for a couple of channels

[MeliMel]

Man HBO needs to go the same route. Stand alone no cable company middle man. And watch HBO stock go thru the roof! I would pay $20 month for HBO..Awesome movies, tv shows and best boxing!

[Julion0715]

Yea man I agree. But I dnt think cable tv is dead one of the top cable providers should come up with something called u pick where u can basically pick the channels u want in ur package that would be awesome.

[Sayburr]

They have already announced that HBO will have an Over-the-top option coming out in 2015.

[hkgamer]

since this is a US service, it doesnt really mean much to me. but just wondering if this service is similar to what sony is doing? is this why it isnt available on ps4?

not sure about your sports channels, but 2espn channels for $20 seems like a good deal. doesnt cable charge a lot more than that?

shame in the UK BskyB basically has dominance over everything so we dont really get these things.

[JustInTlME]

People think this is such a great deal, but if they actually read the full details they would realize it's junk. It's $20 PER USER! Meaning a normal household with a few kids, or just you and a g/f or wife could not watch 2 different things in different rooms.

It's great that ESPN is finally going streaming with no contract, but when you're all excited to watch that football game, and the new episode of the bachelor is on good luck talking her into giving you the TV for 3-4 hours.

By the time you pay for the option to have 2-3 devices you are at $40-$70 (with any small upgrades) and you're only getting the small list of channels. Hard for me to want to do that when I can just stay with Directv, have 3 rooms, and have more channels then I need for $68.....

[alexg587]

You cant just use the same user on different devices?

[JustInTlME]

Not at the same time no.

[Maxor]

I agree. But this service isn't directed at people with 3 TVs in a house hold like myself. It's for the single cord cutters who are living on a budget.

[JustInTlME]

Not true. They offer kids add ons for $5...so they are obviously aiming at families too. It needs to be at least 2 screens per account.

[MeliMel]

I read the artcle and didnt see anything about $20 per user. Seems like Dish has something good going for them. Hopefully they will allow for view on multiple devices. Offer something like Netflix..right now I have only for two devices but if I pay more I can have more devices.

[JustInTlME]

It's not on this article for some reason, but it's mentioned on nearly every other article including ones on CNN, tech crunch and the Verge.

Here is a snippet:
"Just don't dount on sharing it with anyone: there's a single-stream limit at all times."

[Fishermenofwar]

XBMC (Kodi) that is all...