Major League Baseball streams realtime but blocks access to your local teams, even if they're on the road.
Baseball has its own definition of "local" (literally every square inch of the Lower 48 is considered "local" territory for somebody) -- so you're subject to a blackout on some team no matter what. For example, last I checked, all 5 California teams were blacked out in Las Vegas.
Also, no games are available if Fox Sports is showing a game. So, there's a Saturday afternoon timeframe that's always blocked out, for all MLB teams, period. Same with the World Series, I believe.
Bottom line: Streaming is available, but the broadcast networks put a lot of roadblocks in your way.
If I could get sports streamed real time I would cancel all of my Satelite and go with what is on hulu or netflix. Anyway I can get sports streamed real time?
What the Swiss are doing is basically the equivalent of U-verse in the US. So if you live in an AT&T property (and the subset of those that are U-verse) then you can get a similar product.
There are companies who do streaming of their content beyond the standard SPs. They are generally focussed on niche markets and not the top 20 content. The top 20 channels on cable like systems have a HUGE percentage of all TVs watching them (think 95%).
When you think of the current model remember it is all paid for by consumers in 2 different paths. The broadcasters get money directly from consumers but also from advertisers (who in the end get money from consumers). Broadcasters pay for rights to the content and people that own desirable content get paid good money for the rights to broadcast it.
If you want to think of streaming, start by thinking about stuff like the sports streaming services (NBA, MLB, and NFL all have them...the NHL might have one as well but they are locked out and I mostly don't care). Take a look at the costs of these services and see if you make up your current content package, if you think that the current model is as bad as you think. Alternately, you could see what you can get through iTunes and price that out.
I would think there is a big market for people who rather watch TV streaming on the internet.
Yes, and that market competes with those who effectively own the most popular content (movie channels, sports, etc). That would be Cable, Verizon, Dish, AT&T, Direct TV, and other service providers.
They hold on to their content with an iron fist. For example, HBO makes a lot of money from these service providers. It could make additional money by allowing people to pay for streaming, but there's no way the service providers will allow this, and since HBO gets all its income from them, they call the shots. So if you want to stream HBO ("HBO Go"), you have to be signed up to HBO at one of the service providers .
What is stopping a real time streaming of TV in the U.S.? I would think there is a big market for people who rather watch TV streaming on the internet.
If you subscribe to Swisscom's DSL service you automatically get the free IPTV service, whether you use it or not. Then if you want more TV channels over your DSL line, you pay extra.
To be a Swisscom DSL customer you would need to live in Switzerland, the country where it provisions DSL lines.
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