Definitely canceling also especially since they lost YES and a ton of Fox Sports channels recently
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YouTube TV Raises Prices From $50/Month to $65/Month
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We have to pay such high prices in the USA for TV if we don't want actors to starve to death.
You do realize that YouTube and YouTube TV are completely different products, right?
And I bet you still can't watch all the stuff that's been recently removed from air that is 'non-pc'.
The world is turning into a George Orwell totalitarian state.....you must watch this, you can't watch that...... 🤪
Never done subscription streaming, never will.
The world is turning into a George Orwell totalitarian state.....you must watch this, you can't watch that...... 🤪
Never done subscription streaming, never will.
I won’t pay them $65...
but I would pay the $0.65 a month to hide the YouTube Premium banners that, quite literally, are shoved into my face any time my brain cells shift from the present video.
but I would pay the $0.65 a month to hide the YouTube Premium banners that, quite literally, are shoved into my face any time my brain cells shift from the present video.
I don’t want to brag but century link here offers 3 Mbps down 300kbps up AND 18 local channels for $72 a month.
So I pay under $20 a month for Disney+, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. Why would I pay Youtube a ridiculous amount of money for what might as well be cable and all the rubbish that comes with it.
Use the Youtube web site, much better than the phone apps since you can use adblockers
Bye bye YouTube. I guess they got enough subscribers (excluding me) to be able to raise their prices!
I got that Deal then we were promised the price would stay the same for grandfathered accounts. 2 years later they raised it to $65 a month from $35 and I cancelled and went to Sling for $25 a month, for them to raise it to $30 a month a month later and put a lot of their channels into separate bundles sold separately. Better off paying $5 a month for Locast for all the local live TV channels and stick with the streaming services like Netflix. All these TV streaming services are only going up and up. I literally only pay for sling for 1 channel, NBC sports so I can watch the premier league.
Looking ahead... how much longer is this idea of scheduled linear programming gonna be a thing?
A long time ago there was literally an antenna in the middle of town that broadcast the same show at the same time to every house in town. That's how it was done because that's the only way it could be done. And cable TV still follows this model today.
But fast-forward a half-century and we're now all accustomed to On-Demand viewing of almost everything. TV shows are sitting on a server somewhere and we start watching when we want to. There is no schedule.
The idea of having to be at home at 8:30pm on a Tuesday to watch a certain show seems antiquated today.
Sure the DVR helps... but all that's doing is putting a band-aid on the problem of scheduled linear programming from decades ago.
A long time ago there was literally an antenna in the middle of town that broadcast the same show at the same time to every house in town. That's how it was done because that's the only way it could be done. And cable TV still follows this model today.
But fast-forward a half-century and we're now all accustomed to On-Demand viewing of almost everything. TV shows are sitting on a server somewhere and we start watching when we want to. There is no schedule.
The idea of having to be at home at 8:30pm on a Tuesday to watch a certain show seems antiquated today.
Sure the DVR helps... but all that's doing is putting a band-aid on the problem of scheduled linear programming from decades ago.
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Well, my current plan (after my Sling prepaid is over in November) is, Philo TV $20, Locast $5.00 (30 local broadcast channels in the Philadelphia area). Hulu $6 (to cover my addiction to FX shows). Which comes to about $35 with tax for most of my cable needs
That's cheaper than basic cable in my area by a long shot and comes with DVR on Philo.
That's cheaper than basic cable in my area by a long shot and comes with DVR on Philo.
It's a move that cable and satellite providers make, only this increase exceeds their normal hikes. I've loved YTTV ever but I'm looking for alternatives now, for many of us cutting the cord was our way out of these sort of consumer rip-offs. Also, way to stick it to your subscribers in the middle of a pandemic.
Cable is going to make a comeback if this keeps up.
I’m never going to subscribe. Way too expensive and they probably make you watch ads after you’re paying that much lol. No thanks. Never doing it.
But it's at the point where it makes you wonder why you replaced cable to begin with.
Crazy pricing. I'm glad I get Youtube TV for free through my job.
Time to start reading books and using your imagination.
YouTube TV is great for live sports with DVR - but man, I don't remember paying $65/mo for sports channels ever.
Then how do we justify buying $1000 phones and 60" TVs?
This isn't really surprising. The whole "cut the cord" concept was never going to work. Cable companies aren't stupid. They're not just going to let all that money walk out the door. A few years ago I tried dropping our TV service to just keep internet so I could get an internet TV service. However, because of the unbundling, it ended up costing basically the same as if I had just kept the original package as is. It's all one big jerkoff.
I have to laugh at people complaining on social media because ‘cutting the cord’ isn’t giving them something that was never promised and most likely will never happen: ala carte buying.
You can't replace it for content like sports and news. For hot shows, you're going to have to release new episodes at some point, and therefore the first view becomes a linear presentation.
Well on the flipside, DirecTv wanted to start charging me $177/month for 2 TVs on the premium plan. I told them to pound sand over a year ago - tried Hulu but their app sucks, crashes, doesn't work and the guide is terrible for live TV. IMO youtube tv is the best of the streaming live tv services. Since switching I pay $49.99 for youtube live tv, $11 for showtime and $15 for HBO. So now it will be $64.99 + 11 + 15 = $91 - still much better than paying ATT $177.