Swisscom is replacing old subscriptions

With blue TV S, the cost jumps by a factor of 2.98. I fit in…

@JanineZ

Many older users won’t have any fun with it, as I know many in the “retirement home” who mainly only watch the news.

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@PowerMac wrote:

With blue TV S, the costs jump by a factor of 2.98. I fit in…

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Important to understand: This is NOT an adjustment to the current offer, but rather a product is being removed from the range that has not been offered to new customers for a long time.

@ThomasS

The users mentioned are “old customers” and from what I read, your subscription will be increased to the higher subscription price and these are not always high-earning people.

The affected customers will receive the new offer in the first month at the old price.

Call it what you want, I’ll be out of blue TV from July. I only used it very rarely anyway, and every now and then I can watch news or live via SRF Play.

I don’t think it’s that great either, I have a lot of customers with 2 TV boxes, now paying 5 francs more a month for no reason is unnecessary

No matter, you know which provider I’m going to switch to or suggest changing 🙂 (of course I don’t force anyone)

It makes sense that Swisscom should now launch a new subscription.

The marketing department can come up with a name for this.

No replay and 40 TV channels:

For 0 CHF you get:

SRF 1
SRF two
SRF info
The first
ZDF
ORF one
ORF 2
RTL
SAT.1
ProSieben

Cable One
VOX
RTL Two
RTL Great
3+
4+
5+
7+
TV24
TV25

S1
Pulse eight
Tele M1
Tele Bear
Tele Zurich
Tele 1
TVO
Telebasel
3sat
Arte

KiKa
SWR BW
BR South
RTS Un
RTS Deux
TF1
France2
France 3
RSI LA 1
RSI LA 2

Requirement: Internet via Swisscom.

Glotzologist

That’s a joke right???😂

yes it has to go back to the past!!!!

@Glotzologe If you have Swisscom Internet, you can “access” the multicast streams directly, e.g. via VLC, and thus watch many channels for free, see e.g. https://github.com/iptv-ch/iptv -ch.github.io

As far as I know, this works even if you don’t have a Swisscom TV subscription

For people who just want live TV it’s a good option. When I have time I’ll make something with a mini PC (I still have a lot of ThinkCenter M900 lying around) and OpenELEC or something like that, a self-made Blue TV box so to speak. You can certainly pull in EPG information somehow and you can also do live pauses and recordings if you have enough memory in your PC.

However, replay will be difficult

Why do you want to tinker with a new blue TV minimum offer?

The free live TV offer in Switzerland has been around for a long time and is called Teleboy Live 🙂

It also runs without a subscription and without any internet provider dependencies 🙂

@Werner The Teleboy free offer is right advertising, I find 4 advertisements of 15 seconds each annoying. Adblockers recognize them, you have to deactivate them otherwise nothing works. There’s enough advertising on TV now, so I don’t need any more

@NilsL

I don’t mean the “normal” Teleboy app without a paid subscription, but the additional Teleboy Live app, which is basically available for free.

It has no advertising at all and looks like this:

If you want to know more about it, you just have to google Teleboy Live.

@Werner

The residents of the “retirement home” want to have a good picture on their TV and not a lot of advertising, the problem now is that the subscription for CHF 5 is no longer available and something equivalent has to be found.

Bravo Werner, thank you very much

@Werner Do you mean this app that is only available in the Playstore and Appstore (not as a website for the PC)?

But it also says “contains advertising”. But I didn’t download it, so maybe it’s ad-free after all

As a real alternative to a Blue TV subscription, it would have to be somehow easily available on the “big screen”, for example through a PC that you connect to the TV and via a Bluetooth remote control (you can even connect the Swisscom remote controls to a Windows PC and thus control VLC, for example)

I find it an absolute disgrace that I now have to shell out for an additional TV-Box instead of Fr. 5.- Fr. 9.90.

The old system of CHF 5 per box was fair and transparent.

Keep it up; Even a long-time customer (> 50 years old) gets frustrated once in a while…

@NilsL

Yes, that’s what I mean.

It can also be easily brought to the big screen via Airplay or Chromcast, but you just have to be aware that, as with the blue TV apps, you still get a good picture, but not the full high-resolution big screen picture quality receives in the streams.

But if you want really good big-screen TV quality on up to 5 devices at the same time, whether TVs, set-top boxes, tablets, PCs, without unnecessary customer restrictions, harassment or forced advertising, I would still choose the Teleboy paid subscription Install TV with a promotional discount lasting 20 years for CHF 11.90/month.

For example, it also runs perfectly on an Apple TV box and recently even on a Swisscom TV-Box 5, just not perfect yet 🙂

Clearly a unilateral change to the contract. One month 5-14.90 a joke

New customers get the thing free for 6 months, then 14.90.

You make me want to take a look at the offers from the competition - thank you.