Comments on: Bad news for cord cutters: Al Jazeera America won’t be live streamed online

By: John Stewart Pinnow

John Stewart Pinnow — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:26:25 +0000

Yea, no need for a terrorist network …. LIKE FOX (FAUX) News. It is sad that foreign television is more honest. Al jazeera at least reports news. Instead of hours of ‘Opinion’. FOX is scared, the population might actually be informed lol.

By: John Stewart Pinnow

John Stewart Pinnow — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:18:32 +0000

If they go with subscription model please please don’t use flipping silverlight, like some of the cable channels do.

And what of us non-cord cutters. Making it harder for people who do ‘pay’ for cable.
I have been enjoying Al Jazzeera english watching it no problem on my linux machine. I don’t need to deal with stupid codecs to watch stuff.

It really fries my cookies, that I can’t watch online cable content that I do subscribe because they want to use some brain damaged non-multi-platform codec to play it. Use html5 and make all platforms happy.

By: Bea

Bea — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:52:19 +0000

I don’t have any choice where I live in the NE which is heavily populated and you’d think there would be other options. We have one cable/broadband/internet provider. One. If you drop cable, you can’t subscribe to the Internet service. There is no other ISP in our area either. It’s been this way for over 20 years.

By: Robert Pearson

Robert Pearson — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:31:49 +0000

No need for a terrorist news network

By: Joey from Ohio

Joey from Ohio — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:22:25 +0000

It’s horrible how much cable providers can control a network. This is the only country in the developed world where cable providers think they’re being cheated if you live stream your programming. It was even too much trouble for CNN to live stream and require a username and password.. It took them a long time.

By: cordcutterguide

cordcutterguide — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:59:00 +0000

Thanks for the update but this doesn’t really sound that bad. How different can “Al Jazeera English” and “Al Jazeera America” really be? Plus as you know cord cutters don’t lack for news content. ROKU offers all kinds of news channels for free.

http://cordcutterguide.com/

By: Edmund Singleton

Edmund Singleton — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:34:31 +0000

If you go back to cable it will only be your lost. The world needs more points of view…

By: Edmund Singleton

Edmund Singleton — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:31:52 +0000

I can only hope for no on-screen logo and no news crawl, please…

By: TechBell

TechBell — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:23:50 +0000

That seems a bit premature because – correctly me if I’m wrong – making money has always been less important for Al Jazeera than getting viewers and I doubt AJ – which has invested heavily in mobile and alternative platforms – will simply abandon their existing viewers because they don’t have cable.

By: Gabriel Chapman

Gabriel Chapman — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:43:46 +0000

If there is a network in the US that could get even less market share than the awful lineup from Current it would be Al Jazeera. Odd that manbearpig decided that glenn beck wasn’t good enough to buy his network due to his political leanings and the desire of current to keep with its lefty image moving forward. Does this mean that middle east propaganda and “progressive” American TV are one in the same?