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Youtube TV now $64.99 a month
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I also think you cannot fast forward unless you get the 'enhanced' DVR.
CW has an app where you can watch shows without proving you have a cable subscription.
I've worked for cable / TV for almost 20 years. Prices go up due to content providers raking the aggregators over the coals. I don't think the general public understands how much of a loss the aggregator is eating to give the customer initial discount pricing. I know it's very easy to blame the aggregator, and yes some of their billing tactics feel very "bait and switch", but I think time will end up being kinder to some of the cord based options out there. There really aren't many ways around the expense of of the content providers...
What a rip off.
People really getting cable esque used to that ecosystem huh? I think Hulu (no ads) + Netflix + HBO max + Disney+ is like $52. I could do CBS too and include a portion of what I pay for prime for shipping anyway and still be under. So much more content.
People really getting cable esque used to that ecosystem huh? I think Hulu (no ads) + Netflix + HBO max + Disney+ is like $52. I could do CBS too and include a portion of what I pay for prime for shipping anyway and still be under. So much more content.
I dont think they do live in app? but then again who actually watches live lol
I'm in the same boat. I only really cared for this stuff because it gave a pretty broad access to sports channels. With price increases like this, and my insistence to not use cable, I don't see myself going back.
I've noticed that as I've gotten older, I care less and less about sports anyway, which is a bummer.
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Look into Fubo TV. They are getting ESPN and other channels this summer. I'm guessing a price increase will be happening, but we will see. Funny how their website now has a banner promoting the new upcoming channels. Guess they are getting a lot of views right now.
Just read you have to pay extra to fast forward through commercials, that's one of the main benefits of having a DVR.
Why can't we have nice things
Yeah nah it isn't live. I only found out about it when I was looking to get my Legends fix and saw it in the app store. I was surprised they didn't ask you to prove you were a cable subscriber to watch shows, like the other network apps.
The base plan gives you only 50 hours of DVR storage and you can't fast forward through commercials. You need to add another $10 your service to get their enhanced DVR with 200 hours to get the ability to fast forward through commercials. Conversely, YouTube TV is unlimited storage included with the difference being things will disappear after 9 months. What's nice about YouTube TV's DVR is if you like syndicated shows, you'll pretty much get entire show series on demand with YouTube TV. Say like Seinfeld, you add it and since it's constantly in rotation, it will eventually have the entire series all the time in your DVR.
Right, but we haven't had sports for months. People just flushing money down the toilet.
Just looked, but unfortunately, they don't have local stations and I don't want to be switching inputs and using HD antennas to watch local stuff (also wouldn't be able to DVR anything on them).
Some areas and some channels only.
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Damn, I'm glad I quit when Jeopardy! finished its season.
It was going to be temporary, but I doubt I'll ever subscribe again now. With all FX shows airing on Hulu now a traditional cable package has really lost much of its appeal to me.
It was going to be temporary, but I doubt I'll ever subscribe again now. With all FX shows airing on Hulu now a traditional cable package has really lost much of its appeal to me.
Yup. In my case I'm not even that far from the antennas for most of the major networks like ABC, CBS, etc. They're all clustered southeast of downtown and about 25 miles from my house as the crow flies, but living in the hill country makes that a lot harder. A lot of friends in closer to town even just a few miles can use an antenna without issue and get everything, though, with just a crummy indoor flat. I have a Terk I used and kiiiind of got some signal for a bit, but it's incredibly impractical where I had to put it and the signal was unreliable. If it had worked I'd probably not be using YTTV at all (well, wife may disagree...) and just had the antenna hooked directly to a Tablo (which I tried out a while back and it worked fine).
If you have a device it works well on, Sling is okay (you get what you pay for). My problems with it, when we were using it, were ridiculous. The apps aren't at all unified across devices (AppleTV 4K, Roku P+, Xbox One, in my case at the time), the service drops quality constantly, it goes to a black screen when changing quality and A/V goes out of sync a lot. It was not something I recommend to people unless they've fixed any of those problems or you just don't care about the frustration of them versus the money you spend. That and you have to pay for DVR and a lot of channels are missing that "we" used.
Dang that is too much, I was holding onto it since there were a couple shows I was watching. But even on those the recordings it was doing for Stargirl were just awful quality I couldn't bring myself to watch them (figured I'd just wait for them to be somewhere else uploaded in more watchable state). And with no sports that was really the only thing I had it for. Will have to determine what I'm going to do whenever the NBA starts back up again (I seriously wish there was a way to just pay some price to just stream NBA games including local ones).
I did it for a month a while ago and was thinking about it again... but I'll probably go with Hulu.
For 61 dollars a month I am not able to get my dad Hulu Live with all his locals plus a ton of other channels that he already had on Youtube. And on top of that he also gets Hulu without Ads. Only downgrade I see is the unlimited DVR, which he wasn't using much on YTV anyway. This appears to be a much better deal and the streaming quality is as good as YTTV.
The viacom channels lost a lot of "value" when HBO Max was introduced as well. Sure they won't get content right away, but a ton of their content is available on Max. This is probably by design to push people to Max, this increase is more than a Max sub.
I feel similarly with the Disney channels and Disney Plus.
I feel similarly with the Disney channels and Disney Plus.
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Weird. They should have NBC, CBS, and Fox for you with abc coming with Disney channels. Wonder why you don't get them.
My parents love using it because it censors a lot of the naughty bits of movies when they play on reg. channels.
Don't the channels do that themselves, or are you saying youtube scrubs stuff automatically?
Funny thing is it's still cheaper then Comcast once you are out their new customer promo. People don't want more channels. Give me a $30 price and select any 20-30 channels i want out of the list. I'll probably only need 10 to be honest.
I think streaming TV services still have the advantage over paying for cable(/satellite) in the long term because of their subscription-based nature (no contracts) and you don't have to pay for the usual company equipment/maintenance fees...
...but damn do these constant price hikes across the board erode those advantages. They now typically cost as much as getting cable TV packages without the aforementioned extra fees at this rate.
Sling seems to be the only exception to the rule because unlike everyone else, they've been in the streaming TV game longer and they don't provide a standardized single broad package of basic cable channels.
...but damn do these constant price hikes across the board erode those advantages. They now typically cost as much as getting cable TV packages without the aforementioned extra fees at this rate.
Sling seems to be the only exception to the rule because unlike everyone else, they've been in the streaming TV game longer and they don't provide a standardized single broad package of basic cable channels.
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Good luck with that youtube. Who in the hell is gonna want to pay $64.99 a MONTH for your service?
I wish they would start offering tiers. All of these additional channels that keep hiking up the prices are channels I just don't care about having.
I just want sports, news, and movies.
The crazy thing is $65/mo is still cheaper than what I was paying for Spectrum Basic Cable at $70/mo, and I get more channels.
I just want sports, news, and movies.
The crazy thing is $65/mo is still cheaper than what I was paying for Spectrum Basic Cable at $70/mo, and I get more channels.
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So don't get new channels.
So don't get new channels.
I'd rather keep paying $50 a month and not take all those extra channels. There isn't even much to watch on cable tv besides endless returns of reality shows on most channels. I'm going to convince the wife OTA, netflix, hulu, disney plus, and hbo max is all we need. That still comes out cheaper than channel packages.
The problem is, if you want true ala carte, it is very likely the channels you are most interested in would cost way way more and the channels you don't care about would cost pennies. And the providers would want to charge cable companies by the bundle because they know that, say, ESPN is a very important channel and, say, Freeform is lower on the list. The only way this works out is if you love the unpopular channels (and if you don't want sports, I'd argue you really don't need a live TV subscription package).
It costs as much as a cable now lol.
With so many streaming service to choose from, who the fck at Google think this is a good idea?
With so many streaming service to choose from, who the fck at Google think this is a good idea?
The thing though is Viacom is also CBS and it was part of renewing those contracts too. So not adding the new channels meant also possible issues with existing channels that they already offered.
Then they should drop those too. Way back when I started subbing it had maybe half the channels, no CBS, and was 35 dollars and I was happy. So long as services like YTTV concede to every demand by the Viacom's then prices will always go up. They are giving themselves too much credit when they say they are negotiating.
In my opinion the streaming services still offer added convenience vs. cable.
My issue with Hulu anything is that their interface has always been nonsensical to me.