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Re: YouTube TV

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Post by camiller »

bane wrote: post #209

$35? What is this 1990? The fundamental problem I think is that this is yet another offering of packaged channels, 90% of which I don't want. Okay, maybe not 90%, but in their initial channel offering I count at least 25 of the 46 channels I'm not even remotely interested in. Once you drop sports, Spanish language content, kids content and some of the more useless news channels I'd be paying effectively paying $35/mo…

You omitted AMC from your list, or are you not a fan of The Walking Dead and Into The Badlands?

Regardless, yeah, my wife likes Nebraska Football and I like Purdue Basketball so a service without BTN would be a deal breaker. And If I dropped my 200+ channel cable package (smallest I could get and get all of the things we both watch) and picked up either this or the $35 tier of Playstation Vue I'd save about $100 a month. We already have Netflix and Amazon Prime and I'd probably have to subscribe to HBO now for GoT and Westworld. I'd still save close to $100 a month AND get my sportsball!

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Post by remarkEon »

kevincennis wrote: post #136

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…

If anyone hasn't, I highly recommend reading American Broadcasting et al v. Aereo. A fascinating case, and an interesting run down of telecommunications history.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-461_l537.pdf

Re: YouTube TV

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Post by camiller »

js2 wrote: post #46
bitmapbrother wrote: post #36

Networks available: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wZJuVdp0HaH4GQiB-XNVz76qkd...

Just eye-balling but it looks pretty close to the PS Vue Access Slim package which is $29.99/mo: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/network/vue/channels/

You have to go up to the $35 PS Vue tier to get BTN.

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Post by camiller »

hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #89

> Coming soon. Get on the list to find out when YouTube TV launches where you live. Why the f * internet content still depends on where I live in 2017.

Probably due to live sports blackout policies and such.

Re: YouTube TV

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Post by camiller »

crispytx wrote: post #96

Seems like a pretty steep price to watch network television. As a cord-cutter, I think its a great idea because you can't get the networks with SlingTV, and TV antennas suck. But yeah, I'm not going to pay $35 for network television. I'll just keep using my shitty antenna.

See the blog post mentioned elsewhere, there are a number of cable only networks as well.

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Post by camiller »

faceyspacey wrote: post #150

I really don't understand--those channels are free with an HD antenna. I don't know if this is possible anymore, but those channels used to be free through your cable cord, even without a cable box. ABC, fox, nbc, and cbs are free. Why pay $35 just to remove adds. Are they including, AMC, MTV, etc? I don't think so or they would say so. Ps. This is a serious question. Please someone help me understand how they are ch…

Yes, they are including AMC, BTN, SYFY, ESPN etc.

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/02/finally-live-tv-made-...

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Post by simcop2387 »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #191
res0nat0r wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see commercials constantly lately for SlingTV which starts around $20-35 a month so it seems like things are working so far.

I tried it, the quality is quite lacking from the buffering to the terrible blurring during quick action in sports and movies. And I tried it from multiple connections, ATT/Comcast/Verizon fits...although this was summer of last year during Olympics. Maybe it's better now or was too saturated back then.

Some of that is definitely there. I still see a 2-5 minute delay on video streams (based on show start times etc.). I don't notice any issues with blurring but I'm usually watching old SD shows (star trek on bbc) or cartoons.

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Post by camiller »

hkmurakami wrote: post #171

Initial reactions: 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.

1) yes 2:) only for 9 months

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Post by myrandomcomment »

mikekchar wrote: post #166
shaunol wrote: post #81

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…

You can watch iPlayer via a VPN or DNS service like unblock.us (do not know if they have service in Japan).

Note to the BBC - I would be to pay 3x the license fee to be able to watch on the internet with a subscription from outside the U.K. I bet if you opened it up world wide you would make more money then you do on the all the U.K license fees.

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Post by matsmith123 »

martinald wrote: post #194
nemothekid wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Live TV isn't competing against TBP. You can't watch sports or other live events on TBP. Why would you sign up for a live TV service, if you prefer to watch things on demand on TPB? For any live TV offering they are competing against traditional cable providers. Netflix is already on their way on figuring out the "on-demand" content space. If you look at the blog post, 3/4s of the channels offered are either sports o…

You'd actually be surprised how good bittorrent live video streaming has got. I checked it out and it was pixel perfect 720p HD - absolutely fine for sports. But yes, it's still niche, but wow it has moved on a lot. The program I used was called acestream.

> 720p HD - absolutely fine for sports.

Kek. Maybe for people who grew up with that. My country has had 1080p on all channels that broadcast sports for years.

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