Sometimes you have to consider if you are living your young years frugal and humble is it worth living at all? Why wait to try to live a better life when you are retired when your health is in decline and you may only have 20 years to truly enjoy?
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YouTube TV Price Goes Up to $73 Per Month
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And I am telling you, as an actual YouTubeTV user, local channels are NOT based on your home area when away from said home area. When I have travelled, the ABC/CBS/channels are the local to the area stations.
As another *actual* YouTube TV user who hasn’t used it away from home, that’s disappointing… So we both jumped the gun. Local news is device-location based inside the home area and IP-address based when outside of it. No way to watch home local news away from home, which is dumb.
Kids these days will hardly believe it as they scrape together their $73 each month, but I can remember when TV didn’t cost a cent!
Back in the day, all you needed was an antenna to receive all sorts of live TV shows for free! Originally they were analog broadcast signals, and later digital. It was truly an amazing time. The whole system was funded by advertising and there was no subscription or fees to pay at all! You had to watch everything live though - you could use a “VCR” to make recordings, but it was a very clunky system compared to today’s on demand services.
P.S. don’t get me started about what “phones” used to look like back in grandpa’s day!
Back in the day, all you needed was an antenna to receive all sorts of live TV shows for free! Originally they were analog broadcast signals, and later digital. It was truly an amazing time. The whole system was funded by advertising and there was no subscription or fees to pay at all! You had to watch everything live though - you could use a “VCR” to make recordings, but it was a very clunky system compared to today’s on demand services.
P.S. don’t get me started about what “phones” used to look like back in grandpa’s day!
You can get 125+ channels including the major sports networks on xfinity for $50 a month.
$50 is less than $73.
Would you please elaborate a little on this? How much is Hulu to replace YoutubeTV minus the sports? Does Hulu match all of YTTV's channels?
Thanks.
Ha, sports fee, HD fee, and more. Just looked $37 are fees out of the $50. Then you have to use Xfinity internet and a X1 box or TV app with software out of the 90’s, many of those 125 channels are duplicates SD and HD etc. However you do get the new 10G network 😂
I haven't had access to live TV since 2007 - when I moved out of my parents house. I do not miss it. I always assumed the high costs were due to sports - which I have literally zero interest in. You'd have to pay me to waste time attending any kind of professional sporting event.
Switch from “I’m not lecturing“ to virtual signaling, we are humbled and honored to be in your presence , oh wait…🥱
When I add in the equipment and fees for that plus additional ******** fees, that’s when cable starts to lose me. When I last had cable, I was paying $60 a month total in just crap fees and equipment fees on top of the actual bill for the cable tv service.
Even the original price Is over 3 times what I'd be willing to pay, even if I were interested. I think I watch about one TV season per 3-4 month period of time. Not series. Season.
Better things to do in life to use your precious time with than be a chained down potato couch in front of the box and have to pay ridiculous fees for it.
Yeah same — I did one month last year during the NBA playoffs.
Even then, this year I don’t think I’ll do it. The playoffs themselves are unwatchable at this point for several years — the game itself that deep into the postseason is just “how can I get a foul call” and the overall experience is like 2 hours of State Farm commercials interspersed with a couple min of gameplay here and there. Drives me nuts.
At this point the only other sport I watch is F1 so I just got the F1TV yearly sub for that. Plus several streaming services that come with my cell plan anyway. No more paying “extra” for actual TV
Then why don't they adjust their pricing strategy in Canada? Or why they offer their services there at all?
And where in the world is TV so expensive? I believe it would be more expensive in Canada because the population density is very low.
Sounds indeed like a value added proposition that others seem to lack.
Which begs the question: is this just more of a rebranded default “YouTube platform” feature?
It’s not like the show or movie broadcast is gonna change while you watch it, the exact same stream can play later over and over again, just like a YouTube video on any video channel or when someone goes on a live stream that stream is stored after it finishes for later streaming like a normal YT video.
And it would totally make sense, instead of “DVR’ing” dozens of millions of unique copies for each user, just have a single one to stream for everybody that tagged it “for recording” (probably a hidden “DVR-ed” playlist, just like the Watch Later).
But I’m very out of this loop (just Netflix and AppleOne) watch TV maybe once a week, no sports no live things… my parents pay too much of internet and TV in general and looking to see if I can find something cheaper and convincing for them. (They already navigate YouTube like a boss, if the UI is similar maybe it makes sense)
I don't see the value compared to what I’m currently paying for my cable/internet package. I watch sports and they have plenty of 4K content recently.
$120/month for Optimum TV & Internet
or
$83/month for YTTV with 4K + $30/month or more for standalone internet
We’ll see what kind of promos they have for Sunday Ticket in the Spring, but I’ll probably be going with the standalone package for this year.
$120/month for Optimum TV & Internet
or
$83/month for YTTV with 4K + $30/month or more for standalone internet
We’ll see what kind of promos they have for Sunday Ticket in the Spring, but I’ll probably be going with the standalone package for this year.
I do NOT have regular or Youtube TV and feel that I have missed NOTHING.
Good for you. Your post added NOTHING to this topic.
Better things like sitting in front of a computer and posting commentary on topics you have nothing to do with, judging those that do? IS that better?
It used to be $35/month when it launched in 2017 with around 50 channels. It's now $72.99/month with around 110 to 130 channels depending on location. On a per channel basis, the price has actually dropped but not all those channels are necessarily desirable of course.