Jesus. If I was subscribed to this, in my local currency this would cost me 347.61 moneys each month right now. Ugh.
YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99
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#132I love YoutubeTV, and I've been using it for years. This is probably enough to get me to cancel, though. It started at $40 when I signed up a couple years ago, they raised it to $50 last year, and now $65 for just a few more channels (and among them, only one I even want). I wish they'd offer a more a la carte option. I'd be willing to pay $10-15 per major broadcaster's channel collection, or $2-7 for individual chan…
It's not the services fault. These big tv conglomerates don't want their channels optional because they know no one wants them for the most part. Or, at the very least, you won't accidentally start watching something on their network if you don't even have the channel.
Everyone thinks they want a la carte, but (most) everyone is wrong. Bundling is generally better for consumers and producers.
https://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-...
Stratechery also has written about this
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Paying $65 to watch ads, no please.
10 dollars felt too much compared to free youtube, and now they want 65 for whatever they are selling.
I pay for YouTube Red because I can skip through ads. It's worth it.
In YouTube TV you get to see unavoidable ads, unlike in TV where you can switch the channel while those ads are running.
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#134That cost is nearly double it's original price 3y ago, and looking at the recent channel additions -- I'm not sure the users will be convinced it's worth the extra cost. I wish someone would have a selection like: $5 - one channel $7 - two channels $10 - five channels $20 - fifteen channels (you pick) $50 - 40 channels (we pick) $50 + $15 - 40 channels (the $50 package), plus
YouTube is not the content producer, rather strikes deals with content producers. The reality is there is consolidation in the media world, with a few mega corporations managing most channels. They typically bundle a few channels together for vMVPDs/MVPDs, for leverage - “you want channel X, you must also get channel Y.” Source: I head a Product organization at a mega media org.
This is the business model that sunk the cable TV and opened the market to netflix, hulu etc. The fact that a Silicon Valley company made a fancier app with smarter DVR capabilities will not save this doomed business model.
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#135Unless you must have live sports/CNBC or can’t have your internet slow down, how are YouTube TV or cable packages attractive? We have Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Apple TV+. Even when the free/promotional periods are over, they would still end up costing less than a semi-decent cable package, but with way more useful content (in fact, more than we could ever hope to watch), and little to no ads.
In my case, I get 1 Gb/s (symmetrical, no data cap, and they gave me the modem/router) internet from CenturyLink for $65/month, and we decided YouTube TV was the best choice that gave us local channels (not their subchannels, darn it, and CW is still "on demand" rather than live from the local affiliate), which is important to us because the apartment we're in is the worst possible place to have an antenna. Even with the YouTube price increase it's well under what Mediacom was socking us for after the first year for 60 Mb/s down, 10 Mb/s up, tightly data capped internet and an admittedly wider choice of TV, so for now we'll stay (but start researching alternatives). (Sports? I have the Rhett Butler attitude towards them.)
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Paying $65 to watch ads, no please.
10 dollars felt too much compared to free youtube, and now they want 65 for whatever they are selling.
YouTube TV has nothing at all to do with YouTube proper. It's purely branding. TV is comparable to Sling or DirecTV or your local cable TV option.
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#137Have they figured out how to play the show you click on yet? No. $50 a month and the basic functionality of the app doesn't even work. With a Chromecast, it's even worse. Eventually, after clicking back and forth, disconnecting and reconnecting, it may play. Then you have to turn off the closed captioning for every single show even though it's off in the settings. Then it randomly stops at times. The ui displays the…
Usually don’t come to HN for this type of comment but something about it in this context is just poetry.
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#138I was already considering cancelling but this is the nail in the coffin. We don’t care about the added channels. Also, the recordings are usually messed up. It will be a new show but think it’s already been watched. So we typically turn on the show in between its air time just to catch it. The iOS app makes it easier to choose which to watch. We mainly watch on Apple TV and the UI is not very good... good bye.
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#139Didn't even know people still paid for TV but reading this thread surprised me. I would say this industry is dead with the upcoming generation but guess I'll be surprised again
There are plenty of people above the age of 40 on HN, though.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
10 dollars felt too much compared to free youtube, and now they want 65 for whatever they are selling.
I pay for YouTube Red because I can skip through ads. It's worth it. In YouTube TV you get to see unavoidable ads, unlike in TV where you can switch the channel while those ads are running.
I use YouTube TV and this comment confuses me. What exactly do you think is stopping you from changing channels?