I’d cut the cord if I could get my LA Kings games without cable. I looked into NHL Gamecenter (it was just added in the latest AppleTV update) and the streaming samples I tried looked great. I could watch every game in the league all year for $150, which is less than a single month of paying for cable. But of course there is a catch. Gamecenter only plays out-of-market games. Being in the LA Kings market, all of their games would be blacked out! What the fuck’s the point then? I suppose it’s great if you live in a different city than your favorite team, but if you’re local and looking to cut the cord without losing live sports, forget about it.
There are so many entrenched interests in the cable/movie/music/media industries that it’s going to be many years before we can fully cut the cord, if ever. It’s looking like they’re going to slowly bleed us dry with shitty options until they can figure out a way to continue making money in the new world. They’re going down kicking and screaming the entire way.
