YouTube TV price increase

Turd Ferguson said:
Going from $72.99 a month to $82.99 a month. How long before it costs as much as cable?
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There are only two reasons I can come up with that would make streaming broadcast TV services cheaper than traditional cable.

1. They aren't responsible for communications to your house. However, to utilize them most people pay a local cable company for Internet. Ideally buying two products from two different companies should be more expensive than one (or two from the same company).

2. They can force you to watch commercials which means they probably get a discount on carriage fees. I don't know if YouTube TV does that. Hulu Live does on some channels.

From a technical standpoint, cable TV is a far more efficient use of bandwidth as you are just broadcasting the same signals to everyone plus less overhead than TCP/IP.

Other than that they can just offer fewer channels but either cable or streaming could do that.

When streaming TV services first came out they were cheap and everyone thought it was the death of cable but I said at the time there is no reason that these streaming services + Internet should be cheaper than cable.
 
I have Hulu TV but the drawbacks are significant IMO. Being forced to play through commercials is a major drawback. The virtual DVR features are extremely inferior to having your own hard drive next to your TV.
 
Turd Ferguson said:
Going from $72.99 a month to $82.99 a month. How long before it costs as much as cable?
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Compared to my last cable bill, at $10 an increase it will still take about 8 more increases.

Of course this makes Hulu look better for now, but I tired Hulu(live) for a week and hated it. One thing that bugged me is you couldn't just record everything for a team, you had to look up each game and record each game.
 
Charlotte1204 said:
Oof. Just saw the email at the top of my inbox. We'll stick with it, though.
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Me too, but on average it's still less, since I skip 3-4 months each summer. Now that I've basically stopped watching football, I might can skip another month.

I need a sports package, since that's really all I watch on YTTV.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
2. They can force you to watch commercials which means they probably get a discount on carriage fees. I don't know if YouTube TV does that. Hulu Live does on some channels.
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Ha. No one can make me watch that garbage. :cool:

I'll mute the TV and leave the room before I watch those stupid things...
 
UNCatTech said:
Compared to my last cable bill, at $10 an increase it will still take about 8 more increases.

Of course this makes Hulu look better for now, but I tired Hulu(live) for a week and hated it. One thing that bugged me is you couldn't just record everything for a team, you had to look up each game and record each game.
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You can get a season pass for a team to record all of its games. All my UNC games are automatically recorded.
 
UNCatTech said:
Does that cost extra? What benefit does it include other than recording all the games?
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No, it's just a feature of Hulu. You just select UNC as a team you want to record all of its games, and Hulu will record them.

Also, I don't know why people think they need to watch commercials. If you record programs on Hulu live, you can skip all commercials. If you hook it up to Alexa through Fire TV, you can just tell Alexa to skip 3 minutes (and Hulu helpfully tells you exactly how long the commercials will be).
 
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