YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

Post by lloeki » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:29 AM UTC

mav3rick wrote: post #94

chrsstrm wrote: post #71

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A road warrior VPN setup running on a Raspberry Pi 4 and placed in your home costs less than $50. There are 1000 reasons to have one anyway, and watching TV while traveling is also one of them. I know for a fact the Spectrum TV app works quite well under this setup.

You'd expect the average Joe to do all of this ?

Post by jeegsy » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:31 AM UTC

texasbigdata wrote: post #67

chrsstrm wrote: post #45

For any YouTube TV PMs reading, I just added an event to my calendar marking the day I'll cancel my account. Thanks for the helpful reference to the exact date my current rate expires. Spectrum is offering more channels for $45/month and you don't even need a cable box if you're using an Apple TV. YouTube TV is an OK service that is very rough around the edges and I won't miss it a single minute after I cancel. "This…

Not the same. Only works at home

Post by op00to » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:32 AM UTC

Bud wrote: post #202

shepardrtc wrote: post #13

YouTube TV is nowhere near good enough to demand that high of a price. The shows are limited, the DVR interface is terrible, and the DVR barely even works. It's nowhere near as good as Vue was.

Disagree, and I doubt you're a regular user of YouTube TV given your comments. "The shows are limited" doesn't even make sense; you get access to the live feed of all the channels in question. The DVR works perfectly in my experience over the last year or so; it has never failed to record what I wanted it to record.

Post by jeegsy » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:35 AM UTC

chrsstrm wrote: post #71

texasbigdata wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the same. Only works at home

A road warrior VPN setup running on a Raspberry Pi 4 and placed in your home costs less than $50. There are 1000 reasons to have one anyway, and watching TV while traveling is also one of them. I know for a fact the Spectrum TV app works quite well under this setup.

Post by angry_octet » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:39 AM UTC

ridaj wrote: post #247

newbie789 wrote: post #148

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That's an interesting perspective, but it kind of looks like a lot of graphs saying "You should pay for stuff you don't want because otherwise it would incentivize the sellers to price gouge you for the stuff you do want" I'm kind of confused, if it's an adversarial relationship where the seller is going to extract as much money from you as possible in either scenario, wouldn't some consumers prefer to pay specifical…

The argument is not about your buying preferences as a consumer. Of course if you had a choice between (a) paying X for watching stuff, or (b) paying Y for the ability to watch exactly the same thing, but Y is overall less money because it is somehow dependent of the amount that you consume, that is the better choice. However, the economic equilibrium of a perfectly unbundled system is not that you get to watch the s…