I've used all the live streaming TV services and this is easily the best one of them with the simplest interface. You can also have up to 6 users on one streaming account. Yeah, the price hike sucks, but it's still worth it to me. PlayStation Vue was really great until Sony ended it back in January. And PlayStation Vue was the only streaming service you could use on PlayStation 4 ... and since they cancelled their service, they replaced it with YouTube TV. Now I have literally everything on my PlayStaton.
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YouTube TV Raises Prices From $50/Month to $65/Month
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Just install ad blocker. No ads
I'm going to assume I can't do that on my LG TV and I rather not have to stream to my TV. Doesn't bother me too much but I have noticed the ads continue to increase with longer mandatory watch times before being able to skip them.
I canceled cable around 10 years ago. Haven't looked back. I have very little interest in sports anyway so it's disappointing to hear that's what drives the prices.
On the other hand, we don't have 20% (or whatever amount) VAT on every purchase over here.
What are the providers going to do when Gen Z becomes the market demographic. They care the least about live programming and will find something they like on demand. Not going to get $100 month for video from this group.
Won't be long until the others follow suit.
No kidding I have direcTv and negotiate $85 a month
Netflix 4K: $15.99/mo
Disney+: $5.83/mo (over 12 months, yearly)
Apple TV: $4.99/mo
Hulu No Ads: $11.99/mo
YouTube Premium: $11.99/mo (which also includes music)
HBO Max: $14.99/mo
Roughly the same price as this at $65.78. And YouTube Premium is just cable TV with the same ads, right? And honestly you don't even really need Apple TV, which is mostly empty (and currently free for most people).
Disney+: $5.83/mo (over 12 months, yearly)
Apple TV: $4.99/mo
Hulu No Ads: $11.99/mo
YouTube Premium: $11.99/mo (which also includes music)
HBO Max: $14.99/mo
Roughly the same price as this at $65.78. And YouTube Premium is just cable TV with the same ads, right? And honestly you don't even really need Apple TV, which is mostly empty (and currently free for most people).
I’m not familiar with the ESPN offerings, however the channels you described (Fox, CBS) are available on DTV for free.
ugh - youtube is turning the screws on us again
parent company goog is becoming a monster
getting sick of all the annoying ads and manipulations
youtube used to be good like amazon prime used to be good
aapl should have bought youtube long ago
how ever.....utube is more entertaining than atv+ though...
parent company goog is becoming a monster
getting sick of all the annoying ads and manipulations
youtube used to be good like amazon prime used to be good
aapl should have bought youtube long ago
how ever.....utube is more entertaining than atv+ though...
I can’t fathom paying that much to consume Hollywood garbage. Hell, if somebody offered to pay ME $65/month to watch TV for a couple hours a day, I’d probably decline. Mind rotting garbage interspersed with propaganda.
The worst part is they continue to add channels ill never even watch, charge us for it and leave out channels/remove the ones I do care about. YES network gone, stilllll no history channel, I end up having to pay for those series separately. I'm cancelling, I'll find something else. We already left Fi to move to T-Mobile and go back to iPhone, the day Apple adds an A-La Carte service I'm onboard. The challenge is losing locals when I do enjoy watching football if they go that route, I really hope at some point they figure it out.
I pay $165 total including taxes but its for Triple play so I get
Gigabit Internet
Landline
Extended TV Cable
HBO
Showtime
If I tried to do that unbundled
Gigabit Ethernet - $100
Landline - $40 (This is pretty much a throw in on the triple play package)
Youtube or Equivalent - $50 to $65
HBO - $15
Showtime - $11 or more
The only things we watch in the Base TV are news/Hockey(Well when there is Hockey) and the wife watches a lot of cooking shows. Unfortunately they are spread out over multiple providers. We are retired so we watch more TV.
I haven't tested YouTubeTV's limits but they make it sound like each user gets 3 concurrent streams. "6 accounts per household, each with its own unique recommendations, and 3 concurrent streams."
YouTube is not YouTube TV. While the names are obviously similar there is zero overlap in the services.
And you can just get cable, if you want a contract, equipment fees and a limited DVR.
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neat.
some of us enjoy having both local and national news channels, and local and national sports. plus the ability to channel surf when we're too lazy and find something on netflix.
I have Spectrum internet and decided to add their streaming tv app. It cost me $25 and they offered hbo showtime STARZ for $15 (2 year price lock-in) So for around $45 after taxes I have like 70 channels not counting all the muisc channels and such. I love it. Pay $69 for 400mbps internet. Very happy with them. Had left them for over a year and decided to go back. All the other stream channel packages were more expensive to me for what I was getting. I loved YouTube TV. But nah on the price.
Insert XXX for "TV" there...
The US is totally captured by corporations with very little competition and lots of lobbyists -- some even in actual government roles.
I hear ya. The global shutdown helped me realize we don't really need a billion channels, so we just cut it down to the basics. My kids watch youtube anyway.
