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Re: YouTube TV

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Post by gagege »

vinylkey wrote: post #18

> Stream ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC & more. What's included in "& more"? I can get the listed channels from an antenna.

If it's just my local OTA channels, this is basically just paying $35 a month for a DVR.

Re: YouTube TV

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Post by krzyk »

They ask for zip code but don't ask for country, should I assume (again) that they mean the default (USA) country?

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Post by mynameisvlad »

sachinag wrote: post #14

You announce this on February 28 without TBS, TNT, or truTV? I get that Turner had you, but come on. Wait until April to announce if you're not gonna have them. Or even until June, when the NBA conference finals are over.

Have you found a source for the "& more" to definitively say that those are not included? Because as far as I could see, all we know is that the big ones are included and that there's others but what those are isn't very clear.

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Post by dragonwriter »

colinbartlett wrote: post #6

Is this similar to Direct TV Now[1]? Both of these services seem like an interesting step forward, but then, who really wants to watch live TV anymore, besides sports fans? The whole idea of watching something at a specific time that it's aired just seems unimaginable to me after years of on demand streaming. Not to mention commercial breaks. 1. https://directvnow.com/

> Both of these services seem like an interesting step forward, but then, who really wants to watch live TV anymore, besides sports fans?

There is probably a reason YouTube is advertising "never run out of DVR space." This isn't just about just live content, it's about no required delay but still on demand viewing.

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Post by soheil »

The page is extremely void of any details, reminds me of Cable companies landing pages. This is odd because I noticed there has been a recent explosion of third party live CNN, FOX News, ... channels, not sure if this is because YT made their copyright detection algorithms more lenient as a segue to YT TV.

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Post by mynameisvlad »

joshuamorton wrote: post #16
harigov wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest problem with Google is their branding. They launched so many services - Google Music, Youtube Red, Youtube TV, Youtube Live, Hangouts Live, etc., it's just impossible to keep up on what they are actually trying to do. I am sure they have far less number of customers on any of these individual services than if they would have had if these were independent companies. They do everything and nothing they do r…

(am googler, but don't work with any of the mentioned products) Keep in mind that all of these products in many cases compete with other companies (music -> spotify, apple, ytr -> netflix/hulu originals, kinda, YTL -> twitch, YTTV -> cable providers). I, as a consumer, wouldn't want these things to all be bundled. I use spotify for my music, and I don't want to have to pay for Play Music or youtube red unless I use t…

> I can't even imagine how some kind of "unified google media" thing would work.

It's quite simple. Pay more than a few services (but not as much as all of them together) and get access to all of them. The concept isn't really hard at all. You can go a step further and give increasing discounts the more services you add if you don't want one package deal.

You guys already do it for Youtube Red/Google Play Music. It's not mindblowing to imagine it being expanded from there. There's a common account for all the services anyway, so from a technical perspective you'd have a common place to store subscription information if that's not already done.

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Post by PhrosTT »

gagege wrote: post #21
vinylkey wrote: post #18

> Stream ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC & more. What's included in "& more"? I can get the listed channels from an antenna.

If it's just my local OTA channels, this is basically just paying $35 a month for a DVR.

I guess but I'd pay $35 to get live sports - the only reason I'm still stuck with cable.
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