Comcast offers live TV without cable subscription—though with a big limitation

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Comcast offers live TV without cable subscription—though with a big limitation

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From the company that said last year that "Cable Cutters" wouldn't impact their bottom line...

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/07 ... imitation/
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Hmm.....interesting.

They know they need to do something to get $ out of the cable cutters.
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I have been saying it all along... offer to have select channels only and dont pay for the rest. I would pay 15 bucks for 10-15 channels.

But with things like netflix I can watch what I want when i want and pay a small fee. So I don't need cable any more.
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Yeah, I want a-la-cart. I think they would be surprised at the increase in customers if that was offered.
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Soooo, the big question here, since they say you have to stream from "your" network.. Wonder if using a VPN client to connect to your home network would be enough to spoof it and make it work anywhere?
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