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YouTube TV advice
RoadTrip
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Hopefully this is the appropriate board for the question:
Do any of you use YouTube TV exclusively for your TV watching? If so, what are your recommendations for sports etc?
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Yes I do. I just canceled it today as my service is paid for through Feb 5th. I will resubscribe next football season. YouTube TV is the best for sports watching. I love it.
So do you have cable or satellite for network television etc. when it's not football season? I was thinking about getting rid of cable altogether. I pay over $400/mo while YTTV woul be like $90 plus any add-ons like the NFL. I already have Netflix and Prime accounts. I think Paramount is included in the base package. During baseball I'd just have an MLB subscription. In the end, I was hoping I could get access to everything we watch now but for about half the monthly cost.
The Throbber is a YouTube tv whore. Best provider out there
Local TV stations come with the package. For The Throbber that was kind of funky to begin with because Elon’s magic satellites provide The Throbber’s internet. Missoula MT to Spokane to Seattle until Starlink got its reads dialed in.
YTTV just added multi view to most of their sporting events which is nice
You’ll dig it
Youtube TV is absolutely ideal. Multi view is a game changer for football
It has unlimited DVR and you can set it to just record ALL NCAA football, or you can have it record all Big 10.
I don't watch TV after football season. I watch a lot of YouTube and I use Amazon if I want to watch movies.
I’m in the same gulag as Stalin. I resume my YTTV subscription in August and pause in January/February.
Like the Throbber said, you get all your local channels plus the basic set of channels you get through standard cable.
I flip on the TV for 2 things: football and movies. YTTV has me 99.9% covered for all the football - I think the only channel I don’t get is CBS Sports Net or something like that but those are typically mountain west games.
Just ensure your ISP and wireless set up are solid.
HTH
Fubo for me. I haven't compared that closely but Fubo is very sports oriented and has everything I've ever wanted to see plus a ton that I don't. They have some cheap add on packs that really cover bases I didn't know existed.
I'm just saying look at it. Cost is about the same. I'll suspend mine for three months after the natty game with a single click, and it will magically turn back on in time for baseball.
In traveling across the US and streaming (Starlink w/roaming) kept raising their prices. tried FUBO but tired of the endless circle, gave it up. Have a rooftop Traveler for DishTV on my trailer trash house, get all the channels my wife needs and I head to the sports room to watch sports. And Dish is easier than shit to set the guides up for easy viewing - I do not do NFL package, or MLB, NBA etc. so only need one sports package. Sling might be something to check out - its Dish streaming but not sure how it is.
I can record tons of stuff and it has capability to do up to 16 shows at a time. I pay for Peacock as I love the EPL and have Prime to stream also. I pay $93 for Astound broadband one gig and $114 for Dish 330 channels of which I watch 10 max. Wife watches all sorts of weird shit
Switched to YouTubeTV about a year ago and have no regrets.
We pay the extra for Showtime/HBO/Starz. We have my mom in an account and the Mother in law on another account. So it saves them money in their retirement years. Had to lay and extra $5/month to have 4 streams as you are limited to 3 streams I have to occasionally log in from home using my moms Gmail account to reset it for her.
You do get the local channels I get the DFW channels. Mom gets the Seattle channels. MIL gets the DFW channels instead of the Shreveport channels
Unlimited DVR. So you are not scrambling to delete shows as new shows get recorded. YTTV will record old and new episodes no matter what. So it is easy to have it record an old show you have been wanting to catch up on.
There Is a learning curve with the interface, but it is nothing insurmountable.
The multi view is pretty cool while you can watch four games at once.
I can’t stand CC, but with shows they whisper on, you can turn on the CC and you can edit the font size.
Good point on the interface. It’s a little tricky and now that I’ve learned it, it’s part of the reason I don’t wanna switch and learn something new.
Just did this @RoadTrip . My only regret is that I didn't do it earlier. Even with the uptick in pricing to like $82 / mo, it is a small fraction of what I was paying. I don't (think) I miss any sports. ESPN, etc. is all on there. And then you watch network TV from the platform. It's all there. I think if you go channel by channel there are some things you don't get and things you get with other services and visa versa. But overall we are thrilled with it. The platform and interface is easy and intuitive, super easy to record stuff, etc.
I kept cable as my ISP. It went from $380 something/ mo to like $65 / mo. Oh, also make sure if you keep your cable ISP that you're not "renting" that shitty router they gave you years ago. Tell them you'll turn it in and buy your own, and when you say that they'll say, "Oh no, we don't want it." Fuckers. Fuck me for paying $12/mo for the last however many years renting something they'd throw away if I dropped it off. It works fine, so that's not an issue. They also don't even want the cable box back. Unreal.
Fucking do it. Even with all the other streaming services I have - Prime, Hulu, Apple, Netflix, Peacock and one or two others, I'm still ahead of what I was paying with cable. And I was going to have those services anyway because cable content sucked balls. But even with them, I'm still below the close to $400/ mo I was paying the shit bird cable company.
Youtube TV is the shit. I fucking love it, and believe me, I was apprehensive to switch because I'm old and don't like learning new tricks. I have two sons-in-law who talked me over the hump. Wish I'd pulled the trigger sooner. Thousands of dollars more for a lesser product. Thank God for the US and competition. May it ever be so.
Only reason I can't do that is because the Mrs. likes the network news and a few other things that I can't get through streaming platforms. Otherwise, I'd be in the same position.
If only you had Starlink, you could give cable both middle fingers.
All praise to Elon.
TITTT
Youtube TV is pretty good, although it keeps switching my local channels. You can watch it on a COMPATIBLE TV, phone, and computer. My TV is too old to be compatible I guess, so I have been watching sports ball on my phone and computer. Cox is close to double the price for maybe a few more channels and the technology sucks.
The only non-sports thing I really watch on any kind of regular basis is MTV Classick or whatever it's called.
The father in law called and said he is ditching his shitty cable, something called Optimum in east Texas. They jacked his prices up. So he calls me and says he bought two Rokus and a box that records. So, we will be adding him to our YTTV account. He didn’t want to do it earlier as YTTV doesn’t get History Channel and he watches those Curse of Oak Island and Skin walker Ranch shows. I tell him he can download the History channel app on the Roku and he can get those shows. Hooking him up this weekend
another cool thing with YTTV is you can order the channels how you want. Alphabetical or your preference. And you can hide channels you don’t want to see. It also shows you the channels you get. Many cable providers or Dish show you a ton of channels and you click on it and it ain’t part of your package.
This streaming shit is getting old fast. Between my comcast and streaming options, I'm probably at $320/month
But once you a la carte the individual streaming options, you basically pay the same fucking price, but have like 6-7 different apps you have to click to search for what you want to watch. My in laws switched to Fubo to save like $150/month, but then had to add some things they lost, so it saved them maybe $50, but now use our fucking streaming accounts to watch stuff to save face, and they still don't get a lot of basic channels that come with cable.
If start to cancel streaming services, they'll usually give you a free month, or six months for $2.99 or something.
I had Peacock for a game earlier in the season and went to cancel. They offered $1.99 month for 6 months. I took the offer and cancelled after the season ended. Their content sucks.
I don't even know what I was paying for The Cock, but it was too much. There's nothing on there.
It’s like $8-10 per month and I only needed it for the first cock game and was gonna cancel and pay the $8-10 if UW had another cock game but the $2 per month covered the season and at the time, one of the movies available was John Carpenter’s The Thing. It was gone before I had a chance to watch it.