Oops, you're right. I can't tell the difference between 4K and 1080p on my projector anyway, no television in the house
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Ok I'm no projector expert, but wow eiter YTTV com presses way to much or you'll need to have a lock at your projector setup because something is up here you should definitely se a difference between 1080P and 4k . Out of interrest wahet kind of screen ar you projecting it onOops, you're right. I can't tell the difference between 4K and 1080p on my projector anyway, no television in the house
Not sure if this has been posted here, but most subscribers like myself who try and cancel citing cost as the reason will be given this offer...
It's almost exclusively 1080i rather than 1080p. There are some channels that may be in 1080p but usually are a mix of both i & p with their 'seamless transition'. Of course the consumer tech to artificially present 1080i as 1080p is well established, so no real drama. But then we get to the 25 fpm baseline rather than 50 or 60 we see via other means.Oops, you're right. I can't tell the difference between 4K and 1080p on my projector anyway, no television in the house
Freeview can run at 4K, albeit with less capacity for all the rubbish channels. The only 2 channels* I can think of that have 4k capability are the Sky Sports Main Event UHD channel and the BT Sport Ultimate 4K. Of course these channels are not 'free' and not available everywhere either.
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* Someone can chip-in if some more have snuck-in when I wasn't looking.
It is now cheaper for me to go back to xfinity and just use their streaming tv service. Bye Google.
Missing sports is the biggest problem I have. Baseball and football. I think I’m gonna go back to xfinity it’ll be cheaper to use their streaming service.
Saw this and immediately cancelled. I don’t make enough money to cover these increases. So, back to plain old YT Premium
I had to cancel my YTTV subscription at the thought of how expensive it was for me to watch all those ads
You are correct that the price hasn’t gone up because of increasing price of content. this isn’t really how prices are set. While the cost to make something can be a factor in retail prices, it’s not the biggest factor.
Here’s the reason the prices have gone up. Like it or not prices are set by what the market will pay for it. Prices will continue to go up till they reach a point where sales decline then they level off. That’s just how the economy works.
Exactly! The last straw for me was sitting down with my coffee one morning and turning on a movie in one of the stations on YTTV and seeing a permanent, large (I mean literally about 1/6 of the display) plastered on the top right corner with a countdown clock advertising an upcoming football game on a different channel that night. So I was paying a subscription to watch a channel that plays ads, and they still thought it was appropriate to dedicate a large portion of the display to yet another permanent ad. The runners of that station had to be just sitting there saying “yeah, F U, we know you’ll pay anyway”.
As with most things these days, inflation is the real enemy. Everything is far more expensive now than it was in years past. That said, some companies are charging whatever prices users are willing to pay. This trend will likely continue, driven in part by greed, until a new, cheaper service emerges—at which point history will repeat itself yet again.
Then you probably have a "want to read" list, so one could keep a similar list for streaming shows, subscribing for a month at a time when the mood strikes.
Been a subscriber since before the pandemic, when it was $54.99 and an easy switch from cable. Cancelled yesterday. No other service I subscribe to annually increases their price by such a large % without adding any features. They blame it on the content providers, but I think it’s just Google being greedy- not gonna pay $83 a month to watch old reruns of Law and Order, or the absolute garbage on the major networks.
Mine too, and even if it were cheaper, my content consumption habits have changed too much since cable-cutting 20 years ago to even justify paying for all those channels. That said, it's good to know that having an old school cable channel selection without a contract or installation is a click away if cable-loving family were to crash at my home for a long visit.
It is possible to get "free" television in the U.S. too. Digital antennas can provide access to networks like ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC. There are also free ad-supported streaming services.
While inflation and higher costs are partially to blame here, there is also the factor of penetration pricing. Live TV and other streaming companies came into the market with very low prices to try to attract customers and are now in the process of increasing prices to more "appropriate" levels.
I'm certain there are subscribers who are too busy to even watch TV -- also too busy to cancel the services they don't use.
You would be shocked how much content that’s on YTTV by programmers is already on Samsung TV Plus built into my TV for free. The only thing missing is sports.
Oh well. I'm cancelling mine once college bowl games and the national title are done. I only keep it from mid-August for the LLWS and college football until January.