YouTube TV Expands to Cover 98% of Markets, Full Nationwide Coverage Coming Soon

[adamjackson]

I’ve have the same complaints and problems. I live 12 miles from the largest city in my state, I do not have cable available, cell service is good for voice, but bad to nonexistent for data, and home internet speeds have finally risen into double digits-DSL, for my home. The cost is in triple digits.

I really don’t like the push for wireless connectivity that Apple and others are trying to force on rural communities. I can’t use Apple Music or Spotify or any other streaming service even if I wanted to. Not and be able to walk across the street. I leave my house WiFi and streaming is dead. And driving I’d have 50-100 miles I could go north or west and have a couple of minutes tops when I could use streaming services. Look at any providers coverage map and I’m in good to great zones. Voice I do have coverage, data I don’t. I’m not holding my breath waiting for it to arrive here either.

It's an odd feeling for us as it is for you as well when people are asking for 5G and you're just wanting LTE that gets you from home to work without switching to 3G (or in my case 1X) which is basically non-existent internet when web-pages are multiple megabytes now.

I feel your pain! Instead of 5G, can we please get nationwide LTE coverage first?

 

[jamesrick80]

They still dont have enough channels or at least the ones I prefer. DirectvNow has the most channels although slightly buggy.

 

[Plutonius]

Most of the streaming services cost too much.

 

[burgman]

This. I hate hate hate having to pay Comcast for internet access so I can watch DTVN on my Apple TV. But it’s the only broadband option in my area.

That concerns me too. If net neutrality completely dies would Comcast start messing with streaming from competitors like DTVN.

 

[EdT]

Right now I use Dish as my provider. I could switch to Sling TV pretty painlessly hassle wise as Dish owns them but by the time I get back to the channels I already have I’m at 80-90% of the cost. I’m also using most of my available internet bandwidth. And that ignores the fact that most streaming services are pulling back their own content to offer on their own streaming service. CBS is already putting shows on their service only-Star Trek- and Disney is about to join them. In a short time instead of cable having 10-15 channels you watch and 100 you don’t it will be streaming services. And to duplicate what you have right now will probably be more expensive. The only advantage, and I can see this going away soon, is you can cancel at any time and pick it up a couple of months later. That’s a loophole that I expect to change quickly.

 

[cualexander]

YouTubeTV integrates really well with Google Home Mini and Chromecast. I can say “OK Google, Play ESPN.” And it will turn on my TV, switch to the Chromecast and then start ESPN from YouTubeTV. And they have Unlimited DVR, so space is not a consideration which is really nice. Although, sometimes some programs switch to a playing directly from that network with forced ads, which is kind of annoying.

But it’s really cool to control TV with voice and be able to tell it to fast forward 3 minutes to skip commercials. You can’t do such things with HomePod currently, well, you can control playback, but you can’t tell it to play something. Google Home Mini even integrates with other services like Netflix and if my girlfriend says it, it launches Netflix from her queue instead of mine. Apple is really far behind the curve on that front.

 

[lenard]

For any of you out there with a significant other who insists that streaming TV have Food Network, HGTV, etc, YouTube TV is a nonstarter.

Get those networks on board and then it’ll be a viable competitor to DirectTV Now.

You got that right. Cancelled YTTV this month. Was waiting for those channels. I kept it as a backup to Directv. Now that Directv is very stable and I am still on the GO BIG promo plan for when they started I am good to go. Promo plan was $35, now $40 and contains all the channels that YTTV does not have and I like to watch. By the way I am not having any problems with Directv's DVR or its limitation at this time of 20hrs....
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Most of the streaming services cost too much.

what's the lowest price of cable that is not on a promotional? Don't include the internet because one is going to have that anyway....

 

[silvetti]

Read 98% markets and assumed we were talking about worldwide expansion. SAD!

 

[ThatGuyInLa]

98%, huh?

I feel as if honestly every single day the entire Internet hates me:

-no cell phone service at my house
-Can't stream music in my area unless I'm right in town
-We just got cable TV (Until 2017, I was on 1.5 megabit DSL)
-No Uber, grub hub, door dash or Lyft
-No over the air channels via rabbit ears or satellite dish
-and no Chick Fil-A or Arby's or Chipotle (I really like Chipotle)

I love it up here in the middle of nowhere but we are a city with 30K people..quite big in my opinion but the internet itself just sort of doesn't know we exist. We're always last to get everything. You'd think being 2.5 hours from Boston, we'd have a lot more amenities.

sorry for the mini-rant. I think I might as well just move further into the woods because I don't gain much by living so close to a city other than higher taxes.

5G cell will unlock the world once its fully out. Covering the entire planet...FROM SPACE. (and give us all cancer)

 

[max2]

No TLC or HGTV no deal.
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For any of you out there with a significant other who insists that streaming TV have Food Network, HGTV, etc, YouTube TV is a nonstarter.

Get those networks on board and then it’ll be a viable competitor to DirectTV Now.

Bingo.

 

[cjake]

I subscribed to YouTube.tv when it was $35 per month. This includes the Golf Channel that I must have. To get the Golf Channel in Directv Now, I would have to subscribe to the $65 a month tier. $30 more for just one channel.

Only complaint I have with YouTube.tv is the forced ads if not watching live or if watching a recording after a couple of hours after the program ended.

 

[phpmaven]

They're the best simply because they dont offer service until they offer you your locals. Their UI and DVR are also far superior to the competition.

I totally disagree. I find the UI to being really annoying and unintuitive.

 

[uecker87]

I subscribed to YouTube.tv when it was $35 per month. This includes the Golf Channel that I must have. To get the Golf Channel in Directv Now, I would have to subscribe to the $65 a month tier. $30 more for just one channel.

Only complaint I have with YouTube.tv is the forced ads if not watching live or if watching a recording after a couple of hours after the program ended.

Umm. The only shows that force VOD and ads are on CBS and CW. Every other channel allows full DVR capabilities for all of your recorded shows. That restriction was changed many many months ago.

 

[Coffee50]

I really like YTTV, I just wished they had a few more channels (i.e Viacom networks). I'm in the grandfathered Direct Tv Now plan, so I prefer DTVN channel selection by far, but I like YTTV interface & unlimited DVR.

I also wish there was the option of doing a single episode recording (And yeah, I could just record the series & delete after the episode airs, lol.) But it would be cool to just have that DVR option......That's the one DVR advantage I like with DTVN.

 

[avanpelt]

Yeah I had DTVN with the GoBig promo but sold it. The buggy interface wasn’t worth it to me. Ended up going to YTTV and have been extremely happy. Even passes the wife test.

There were a few channels we were missing so what we do is supplement it with Philo for a few months each year (to binge watch the shows we missed). During months we pay for both we pay $57. Other months only $40. This way we get a terrific and reliable service and all of the channels we ever need.

Thanks for your post. You’ve encouraged me to try YouTube TV again. Signed up for another month today. Still love the interface; and their DVR blows DIRECTV Now’s “we’ll delete any of the 20 hours you record after 30 days” pseudo-DVR out of the water, for sure. I’m also going to give Philo a try. Never used it but it looks promising to supplement YouTube TV.