adam1991

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united state adam1991 Member Usage caps?? extremely useful in the face of ever-expanding usage caps



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And while this is happening, VZW is busy shutting down its short-lived VZW-only video service that they zero rated for their customers--because in a world full of established sources that are available anywhere to anyone on any platform, nobody cared about an outlier service streaming only to their VZW phones. Business executives really are that clueless. Businesses succeed despite themselves, not because of anything deliberate they do well.



It is but a matter of time before AT&T and VZW join the club of actually serving their customers. Huh? T-Mobile user here. Stream, baby, stream. No usage caps on T-Mobile streaming from Hulu, even on my old Simple Choice plan. Or Netflix, or Youtube, or music services, or...any number of other video services:And while this is happening, VZW is busy shutting down its short-lived VZW-only video service that they zero rated for their customers--because in a world full of established sources that are available anywhere to anyone on any platform, nobody cared about an outlier service streaming only to their VZW phones. Business executives really are that clueless. Businesses succeed despite themselves, not because of anything deliberate they do well.It is but a matter of time before AT&T and VZW join the club of actually serving their customers.



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2 recommendations mackey Premium Member Re: Usage caps?? said by adam1991: It is but a matter of time before AT&T and VZW join the club of actually serving their customers.



Thanks, I needed a good laugh! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Thanks, I needed a good laugh!



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said by adam1991: And while this is happening, VZW is busy shutting down its short-lived VZW-only video service that they zero rated for their customers--because in a world full of established sources that are available anywhere to anyone on any platform, nobody cared about an outlier service streaming only to their VZW phones. Business executives really are that clueless. Businesses succeed despite themselves, not because of anything deliberate they do well.



Verizon Lays Off 155 Employees At Go90 Division

Team from acquisition Vessel charged with app rebuild

By Janko Roettgers, Variety - January 23, 2017

»variety.com/2017/digital ··· 1967433/ quote: Verizon’s mobile streaming service Go90 is about to get a hard reset: The company laid off 155 staffers late last week, with most affected working out of the main Go90 office in San Jose, Calif., according to multiple sources.



Variety also learned that the streaming service will now be rebuilt by the team that came over to the company with Vessel, a company Verizon acquired last October. Go90’s San Jose office was largely tasked with product development, but also included some content operations and marketing positions. ...

EDIT: See: » Well, Verizon isn't actually "shutting down" their floundering Go90 service, they seem to be laying off the original development team, and now plan on "rebuilding" it with a new group from Vessel, a company that they acquired last October:By Janko Roettgers, Variety - January 23, 2017 See: » Verizon Lays Off 155 Go90 Streaming Video Employees [18] comments

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I hope not! The DirecTV UDPs and zero-rated streaming are bad enough on AT&T. I wish they wouldn't do all this crap, and reign in the data buckets so that they could keep network performance in tip-top shape. But they are more focused on the money than the network.

sims

join:2013-04-06 -1 recommendation sims Member following Netflix sure... Lets see right now we have Amazon, Youtube and Netflix all allowing videos to be downloaded on mobile devices for online viewing all three have beat them to it.



I still want to know if they ever plan on offering an ad free service. Ad free on the crap and limited advertising on the popular stuff is not ad free and I feel insulted that they think they can say that it is and charge more for it.

silbaco

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USA silbaco Premium Member Re: following Netflix sure... They have had an ad free offering for about a year.... The are only a few shows that are not ad-free because of their licensing agreement. Though only playing one commercial at the beginning and one at the very end is basically ad-free.

sims

join:2013-04-06 sims Member Re: following Netflix sure... I know.

When they first came out with that new plan it was my understanding that there were a few shows that they hadn't been able to get renegotiated yet by plan launch.



IMHO they have had plenty of time to renegotiate those very few contracts where they still have to show ads but for some reason they won't.

Maybe I'm just being too picky but at this point it seems like just a big F@#$ YOU! to everyone that was asking for an ad free service.

Rekrul

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Milford, CT Rekrul Member Re: Hulu Promises Downloadable Videos Soon We're working hard on the technology around that...



What he really means is that they're trying to figure out ways to limit the normal functionality of downloading files.



Nobody needs special technology to download files, that ability is as old as the internet. The only reason people can't download Hulu videos now is that they took steps to prevent it. In fact, there have been several programs over the years that were created specifically to download Hulu videos. Each time, Hulu changed their site to stop them from working.



So to claim that they're working hard on technology to allow users to download videos is a blatant lie.



They're working on technology to ensure that anything downloaded from Hulu stays locked to a specific account and can't be converted or transferred to anything else. Am I the only one who finds this quote by Hopkins to be both ridiculous and sad?What he really means is that they're trying to figure out ways tothe normal functionality of downloading files.Nobody needs special technology to download files, that ability is as old as the internet. The only reason people can't download Hulu videos now is that they took steps to prevent it. In fact, there have been several programs over the years that were created specifically to download Hulu videos. Each time, Hulu changed their site to stop them from working.So to claim that they're working hard on technology to allow users to download videos is a blatant lie.They're working on technology to ensure that anything downloaded from Hulu stays locked to a specific account and can't be converted or transferred to anything else.