Youtube.TV

[DJ's left nut]

With Youtube up to $73/mo starting this month, I think I'm gonna switch to Fubo at $85/mo to get Bally and MLB Network. At least through baseball season.

Anyone have any experience with them?

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

With Youtube up to $73/mo starting this month, I think I'm gonna switch to Fubo at $85/mo to get Bally and MLB Network. At least through baseball season.

Anyone have any experience with them?

Honestly, with one night of YouTube TV to judge from, it was nice to have pause, reverse, and fast forward again, we didn't play with the the DVR function, but like you say at $73 I'm not sure it's worth it. As for Bally Sports and the Royals, perhaps sports as a whole, I agree, **** all these assholes.

But simple numbers are that we were paying ~$180/month for Google Fiber when they offered TV, now were at ~$70/month for Google Fiber as just an Internet provider. We have Amazon Prime, we have access to Netflix, I've piped a digital antenna signal into the house-wide coax wiring to all TVs, and the main TV has the Samsung Plus offering. In total all those things add up to a lesser experience than any streaming service, but they're pretty-much free. It was a journey adjusting to the larger environment and its limitations after Google ****ed-over their customer base by deciding to quit TV, but it's not like any of these streaming services don't take some adaptation to get used to either.

We might just cancel YouTube TV on day-8 of the 10-day trial and just deal with with what we have now because $70 a month is bullshit for just having DVR and the ability to stop and catch up and a few channels that would be nice. By the time they milk you for all the a'la carte offerings you've saved your way into a bill that's twice as much as you had 5 years ago. Just because you like football, baseball, and hockey...

I know it's the future, but outfits like Bally Sports can go **** themselves. Especially when your team is ****ing terrible.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Honestly, with one night of YouTube TV to judge from, it was nice to have pause, reverse, and fast forward again, we didn't play with the the DVR function, but like you say at $73 I'm not sure it's worth it. As for Bally Sports and the Royals, perhaps sports as a whole, I agree, **** all these assholes.

But simple numbers are that we were paying ~$180/month for Google Fiber when they offered TV, now were at ~$70/month for Google Fiber as just an Internet provider. We have Amazon Prime, we have access to Netflix, I've piped a digital antenna signal into the house-wide coax wiring to all TVs, and the main TV has the Samsung Plus offering. In total all those things add up to a lesser experience than any streaming service, but they're pretty-much free. It was a journey adjusting to the larger environment and its limitations after Google ****ed-over their customer base by deciding to quit TV, but it's not like any of these streaming services don't take some adaptation to get used to either.

We might just cancel YouTube TV on day-8 of the 10-day trial and just deal with with what we have now because $70 a month is bullshit for just having DVR and the ability to stop and catch up and a few channels that would be nice. By the time they milk you for all the a'la carte offerings you've saved your way into a bill that's twice as much as you had 5 years ago. Just because you like football, baseball, and hockey...

I know it's the future, but outfits like Bally Sports can go **** themselves. Especially when your team is ****ing terrible.

It's only the future if suckers keep paying for it. It never took any sort of ability to mystically see the future to know that this crap was going to go from free, to inexpensive, to as expensive as what you were already paying for.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

It's only the future if suckers keep paying for it. It never took any sort of ability to mystically see the future to know that this crap was going to go from free, to inexpensive, to as expensive as what you were already paying for.

Yep. It's basically now just like cable. The networks/content producers went from gouging customers for channels they don't want to get the good parts of their package to making customers sign up for services that basically accomplish the same thing - forcing you to pay for a boatload of content you don't want to get the few good things out there worth watching.

[sedated]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Yep. It's basically now just like cable. The networks/content producers went from gouging customers for channels they don't want to get the good parts of their package to making customers sign up for services that basically accomplish the same thing - forcing you to pay for a boatload of content you don't want to get the few good things out there worth watching.

I still wouldn't go back to cable. When I moved about a year ago they advertised a pretty good price so looked into it and forgot how many extra charges they add. Installation, fees per extra box, hell they added on something like $20 or $30 for local over-the-air channels.

And what's even on cable anymore? Comedy Central is 24/7 reruns of The Office, and most new content I see advertised is on Something+

[GloryDayz]

All of this is sooooo true. Yes we did watch the Chiefs, Royals, hockey and local news; I lived on the Science channel, NASA TV, History channel, and maybe a handful of others, if not those sports. That said, there was never a truer phrase coined than, "300 channels and nothing to watch"...

We shall see, but $70 had better offer more than what I've seen so far. Reruns of 70s shows ain't always awesome...

[RedandGold]

I can’t stand Bally or their app. It isn’t compatible with our version of Apple TV, so we get video with no audio if we run it straight from there. In order to get audio, we have to stream it through a phone and cast it to the Apple TV. It’s not difficult, but it’s annoying that they won’t fix the app to address a known issue.

[DJ's left nut]

I went ahead and signed up for the Fubo free preview. They charge $10 more than the listed rates for the regional sports packages so it's $85 for most of what Youtube.tv has plus the regionals.

If you pay quarterly, you get a few more channels such as MLB TV.

It's probably worthwhile if you need your sports fix. We shall see.

But honestly, I was paying $125/mo for DirecTV 5 years ago so I'm still WELL ahead of the game here.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I went ahead and signed up for the Fubo free preview. They charge $10 more than the listed rates for the regional sports packages so it's $85 for most of what Youtube.tv has plus the regionals.

If you pay quarterly, you get a few more channels such as MLB TV.

It's probably worthwhile if you need your sports fix. We shall see.

But honestly, I was paying $125/mo for DirecTV 5 years ago so I'm still WELL ahead of the game here.

I have DirectTV Stream. It's $99 a month but I get the locals and all the sports channels. Royals, Blues and Cardinals are my main tv watching so its worth it.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

I have DirectTV Stream. It's $99 a month but I get the locals and all the sports channels. Royals, Blues and Cardinals are my main tv watching so its worth it.

I'd pay more for anyone else at this point.

DTV pissed me off something awful and when I tried to get any sort of improvement in pricing, etc... they just said "we'll miss you..." and that was that.

I had satellite and their streaming service wasn't very good yet so they were all but trying to wean people off the satellite service. The problem was that they were doing it BEFORE their streaming model was up to speed. And their response seemed to be "eh, you'll be back..."

**** 'em.

[WilliamTheIrish]

If it ain’t on OTA antenna, I don’t miss it. I’m back to baseball on the radio and I dig it as much as I did when I was a kid.

Fiber internet/Netflix/Hulu and Netflix is getting the boot soon.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

If it ain’t on OTA antenna, I don’t miss it. I’m back to baseball on the radio and I dig it as much as I did when I was a kid.

Fiber internet/Netflix/Hulu and Netflix is getting the boot soon.

Tell me more...

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Tell me more...

Still have a big ol AM radio at home. Sunset on the patio and listening to the sounds of spring in the background while baseball serenades me as the sun drops in the sky.

After a month of no cable, I didn’t miss a damn beat. I read more for sure. And that was 10 years ago that I cut the cord.

Since family members share a few passwords, I can watch certain subscriptions on various apps. But it’s rare that I do that.

It’s almost summer. Outside is where you find me until the sun begins to blaze.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Still have a big ol AM radio at home. Sunset on the patio and listening to the sounds of spring in the background while baseball serenades me as the sun drops in the sky.

After a month of no cable, I didn’t miss a damn beat. I read more for sure. And that was 10 years ago that I cut the cord.

Since family members share a few passwords, I can watch certain subscriptions on various apps. But it’s rare that I do that.

It’s almost summer. Outside is where you find me until the sun begins to blaze.

I like this. I like it a lot...