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1) Will it have ESPN? I only really care about ESPN on a daily basis for TV.
2) "Never run out of DVR storage" -> Will I be able to easily save recordings of any show on Youtube TV? I value this a lot for particular sporting events and have years' worth of footage backed up.
When am I going to be able to choose my channels on an individual, channel by channel basis, and then receive a total cost based on those channels? If I want ONLY the Science channel, then I should be able to purchase JUST the science channel for like, $5/mo.
The science channel will be a lot more than $5/mo if all the sports fans aren't forced to subscribe to it just to get their ESPN. It sounds reasonable that ala carte pricing should be cheaper because you shouldn't have to subsidize channels you don't watch, but people forget that others are also subsidizing the channels they watch. The reality is that channels are already roughly priced according to their popularity…
Lets call a spade a spade: they do it because people don't have a choice and have to pay for it.
This is a cool idea but it still falls very short by not serving users outside of the US. To the point where the welcome page doesn't even acknowledge that there may be global interest: https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/ (enter your ZIP code, no country picker ... YouTube, you do realize you're on the internet, right?) Does YouTube care about getting content to the world? Or just getting as many of their fingers in the…
It's probably not even possible to offer US cable networks outside of the US. They only have licenses from the content creators to show inside the US. Besides, all their competitors are US only as well - Sling TV, DirecTV Now. Someday who knows, but for now live linear is very region-locked.
* Works with any player or device, vs you have to use their application
* Free vs $35/mo
* Has been available for 13+ years, vs available nowhere so far
* Available worldwide, vs some unknown region-locking but certainly US-only for the foreseeable future
* Has pretty much everything, vs "6 accounts" whatever that means
Former Aereo engineer here. First off, there are really two main reasons for someone not to have a cable subscription: 1. They don't care about the content 2. Price sensitivity At Aereo, we saw these sort of mix together to create hugely elastic demand. For a while, we offered a $1 "day pass" that would give you access to live TV for 24 hours at a time. During the Super Bowl and various award shows, we had crazy numb…
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SyFy has really upped their game in the past year or so. The Expanse, Killjoys, and The Magicians are good TV.
I'm actually really enjoying The Expanse and The Magicians (to the point where I bought one on Google Play and the other on iTunes). What's really cool is that I bought the current season up front and then get to watch the new episodes the day (or maybe day after?) they're released. I'm not sure if Syfy is the only channel doing that, but before these shows I was used to only being able to buy the season after it was…
This is a cool idea but it still falls very short by not serving users outside of the US. To the point where the welcome page doesn't even acknowledge that there may be global interest: https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/ (enter your ZIP code, no country picker ... YouTube, you do realize you're on the internet, right?) Does YouTube care about getting content to the world? Or just getting as many of their fingers in the…
As someone who has lived in many different countries, I find this stuff so frustrating. When I was living in England, my wife and I wanted to watch Japanese anime (in Japanese). Luckily Crunchyroll exists and it has quite a large amount of content for a very low price (I think we were paying 4 pounds per month). But now that I'm back in Japan, we want to watch shows from BBC... basically not possible legally. I reall…
If not, at least you can die laughing
Yup, this is going to be exactly like Cable television, and it's no cheaper. No thank you, I cut that cord for a reason.
Maybe if it had no ads? But I'm sure it'll be live television with the ads. There's no point.
I asked my questions in a "dupe" thread so reposting here. From TV to internet to TV on internet to internet TV on any devices. One thing I wonder about is how people who purchase "bundles" traditionally will react. I'd imagine they are the biggest consumer of TV programs. (TV + INTERNET or TV + Phone + Internet style bundles). Will it end up costing the same when you break you bundle to only get internet from a prov…
Yes, resistance is futile. ESPN won't accept less money per viewer "because Internet".
It makes no sense saving the same content multiple time because multiple people tried to DVR the same episode right?
There are some convoluted and non-intuitive legal precedents about this topic, but yeah, Google is probably only keeping one copy.
won't this cause an increase in internet bandwidth used?
Yes, bandwidth usage has increased significantly in recent years, probably faster than Moore's Law.