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I’d rather our game was on ESPN so we could go out and watch it at a bar, but overall I love ESPN plus. Super cheap and ridiculous amounts of content. Great thing for a college sports fan. Or a degenerate sports gambler.
 

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ESPN + is great for scouting and preparing for my March Madness bracket!

The content is great for me and well worth what I pay for the Disney bundle. I get to watch all the ISU WBB, Volleyball, most wrestling.

They are adding more content on to ESPN+ all the time.
 

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I’d rather our game was on ESPN so we could go out and watch it at a bar, but overall I love ESPN plus. Super cheap and ridiculous amounts of content. Great thing for a college sports fan. Or a degenerate sports gambler.
And that content is only going to keep growing. There will be a day you can watch the ESPN linear networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, etc.) on ESPN+. It makes too much sense, and it will happen at some point.
 
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I’d rather our game was on ESPN so we could go out and watch it at a bar, but overall I love ESPN plus. Super cheap and ridiculous amounts of content. Great thing for a college sports fan. Or a degenerate sports gambler.
You CAN go watch it at a bar. Any decent sports bar has it.
 
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Disney has already been talking about having a combined Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ interface. Right now I can access all the ESPN+ stuff through the Hulu app, so they are already 2/3 of the way there.
that's good... but i would say that is still a pretty low bar. These three are all owned by disney... you will have games on many streaming partners platforms in the future...

ESPN+
Peacock
Prime (NFL, could have pac?)
YouTube (getting NFL Sunday Ticket)
etc.

It's good that there is an option for TV (hulu) and ESPN+. But I have Youtube TV right now... I could switch, but still won't solve for the others. In the future, more content will move to multiple streaming options. So, I would love to see a smoother interfaced developed.
 

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that's good... but i would say that is still a pretty low bar. These three are all owned by disney... you will have games on many streaming partners platforms in the future...

ESPN+
Peacock
Prime (NFL, could have pac?)
YouTube (getting NFL Sunday Ticket)
etc.

It's good that there is an option for TV (hulu) and ESPN+. But I have Youtube TV right now... I could switch, but still won't solve for the others. In the future, more content will move to multiple streaming options. So, I would love to see a smoother interfaced developed.
My Fire TV kinda does this now as it shows what's on various apps, but you are still have to switch to the particular app. But what you want is basically a cable TV channel guide that seamlessly jumps you into the app. I have no doubt someone is trying to do that, but it isn't coming from the individual app makers themselves. It's going to come from the TV makers and streaming device companies like LG or Roku.
 
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If ESPN can put the NFL games on TV and ESPN Plus and have a zillion channels to watch the CFP National Championship, they can simulcast a Big 12 Now game on TV like on the available ABC.

Yeah, but I want to watch the playoff games on a channel that has dogs barking and running around during big plays. Or a guy calling the game in Portuguese. We need channels like those showing on ESPN 2, U and News. Not ISU at Kansas.
 

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I'm coming from the other side and bemoaning when a game is on ESPN/2, as the base ESPN + doesn't give you access to those channels.
 
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My Fire TV kinda does this now as it shows what's on various apps, but you are still have to switch to the particular app. But what you want is basically a cable TV channel guide that seamlessly jumps you into the app. I have no doubt someone is trying to do that, but it isn't coming from the individual app makers themselves. It's going to come from the TV makers and streaming device companies like LG or Roku.
Our TIVO (via mediacom) WAS doing that...but then some of the apps stopped playing nicely with it (for example, Hulu said nope, we're not talking to TIVOs any more).

At this point, we have the option to either access it on my laptop and use an HDMI cable to link to our TV, or we use our chromecast. The chromecast accesses all of the apps we have on our phones, but the remote is a PITA to use.

Frustrating when each genre of programming seems to have its own specific streaming service. Trying to figure out where to watch **** makes my head spin. :(