YouTube TV raises subscription to $72.99, inching closer to cable pricing
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#2As much as I hate to admit it, I'll probably still pay it because it's just so much superior to other cable offerings(recording, multiple devices). And there's no other way to watch live sports.
Re: YouTube TV raises subscription to $72.99, inching closer to cable pricing
#3Because its alway been cable. Just Youtube, Sony, Fubo etc are the cable provider.
Yes it streams, but it was never the same as a streaming service.
Something like PlutoTv or the soon to be oversaturated FAST market is just rabbit ears.
Mono culture is coming back big in the next couple of years, and this is how.
When our streaming forefathers spoke of a la carte as the future, they should have specified each individual piece of content and not a la carte channels. It would have saved us all a lot of money.
Re: YouTube TV raises subscription to $72.99, inching closer to cable pricing
#4Because its alway been cable. Just Youtube, Sony, Fubo etc are the cable provider. Yes it streams, but it was never the same as a streaming service. Something like PlutoTv or the soon to be oversaturated FAST market is just rabbit ears. Mono culture is coming back big in the next couple of years, and this is how. When our streaming forefathers spoke of a la carte as the future, they should have specified each individ…
The issue is is that all the big networks still own all the rights. Initially they sold them for cheap to vMVPDs but now the networks are charging more so YouTube fubo etc have to pay more leading to these price increases.
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#5Errrr, what?
I'm sick of ads on YouTube so I was thinking of subscribing.
But it's USD$73 A MONTH? That's like more than AUD$100 a month.
What am I missing? That's about 4 X ridiculous.
Re: YouTube TV raises subscription to $72.99, inching closer to cable pricing
#6The last price increase raised it to $64.99. That happened on June 30, 2020 (https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-tv-update/).
Let's put that into the BLS CPI Inflation Calculator (https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm).
Results: "$64.99 in June 2020 has the same buying power as $75.84 in February 2023".
So this doesn't quite keep up with inflation.
Re: YouTube TV raises subscription to $72.99, inching closer to cable pricing
#7Errrr, what? I'm sick of ads on YouTube so I was thinking of subscribing. But it's USD$73 A MONTH? That's like more than AUD$100 a month. What am I missing? That's about 4 X ridiculous.
YouTube tv is not the same as YouTube premium.
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#8Errrr, what? I'm sick of ads on YouTube so I was thinking of subscribing. But it's USD$73 A MONTH? That's like more than AUD$100 a month. What am I missing? That's about 4 X ridiculous.
> What am I missing?
You're missing "TV". YouTube and YouTube TV are different products.
Yes, the brands are pretty confusing.
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#9Errrr, what? I'm sick of ads on YouTube so I was thinking of subscribing. But it's USD$73 A MONTH? That's like more than AUD$100 a month. What am I missing? That's about 4 X ridiculous.
> What am I missing? You're missing "TV". YouTube and YouTube TV are different products. Yes, the brands are pretty confusing.
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#10Errrr, what? I'm sick of ads on YouTube so I was thinking of subscribing. But it's USD$73 A MONTH? That's like more than AUD$100 a month. What am I missing? That's about 4 X ridiculous.
YouTube tv is not the same as YouTube premium.
This is incredibly stupid naming. I saw these prices and just entirely gave up even thinking about premium until I saw the note (and then I still gave up on it, anyway).