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Re: YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end "$600 less than cable" ads

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Post by Aurornis » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:56 PM UTC

daveidol wrote: post #26

ylhert wrote: post #11

It's wild to me how much Youtube TV costs and yet they still serve you tons of ads. Coming from youtube premium where occasionally I have to skip through a preroll ad, I forget how much you are bombarded with ads while watching traditional TV. The fact that you have to pay the princely sum of $73/month on top of that boggles my mind. I canceled when they raised the price from $35/month and I'll never go back at these…

> youtube premium where occasionally I have to skip through a preroll ad I thought YouTube Premium was ad-free?

Parent comment was comparing YouTube TV to YouTube Premium.

Two different products. YouTube Premium removes the YouTube-inserted ads.

YouTube TV is a different product. It tries to compete with cable and satellite TV (which also serve ads despite hefty monthly fees)

Re: YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end "$600 less than cable" ads

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Post by jayknight » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:57 PM UTC

Aaronstotle wrote: post #65

I will cancel Youtube TV after the superbowl

I signed up for sling for October to watch the baseball postseason, it's gone after that.

Re: YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end "$600 less than cable" ads

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Post by paxys » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:57 PM UTC

ylhert wrote: post #11

It's wild to me how much Youtube TV costs and yet they still serve you tons of ads. Coming from youtube premium where occasionally I have to skip through a preroll ad, I forget how much you are bombarded with ads while watching traditional TV. The fact that you have to pay the princely sum of $73/month on top of that boggles my mind. I canceled when they raised the price from $35/month and I'll never go back at these…

Compare it with a cable subscription, not YouTube Premium.

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Post by stronglikedan » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:57 PM UTC

babypuncher wrote: post #66

YouTube TV is still cable, just delivered differently. For that reason, it was DOA in my eyes. My problem with cable was never necessarily the price (though that was a big factor), but the linear, scheduled nature of the whole thing. I don't know why some companies keep clinging to this dated distribution model well more than a decade after Netflix showed everyone how to do it better.

Because there's enough people like me to make it profitable. I don't want to feel committed every time I turn on the TV. Sometimes I just like to watch whatever's on, carefree. Different strokes, all equally valid.

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Post by paxys » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:57 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #12

I subscribe to YouTube TV but watch it less than 1/month (it's for my parents). It blows my mind that it's $60/month and still contains ads. There is nothing on TV worth sitting through ads for.

Sports. That has always been and will always be the answer to this.

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Post by Spooky23 » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:58 PM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #37

ericabiz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sports fans watch a lot of live TV.

Based on the couple times I have watched sports recently, I would have thought it was a series of gambling ads interspersed with sports.

That’s because the TV system is going to collapse soon, and gambling and data neeed for gambling will replace that revenue.

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Post by hellogoodbye » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

bentt wrote: post #28

I pay $73 a month to watch 1 Liverpool game a week (max), 1 Buffalo Bills game per week (maybe), and a smattering of NBA games. I'd so much rather just give the money directly to the teams and/or leagues.

To watch your EPL team you need Youtube TV, Peacock Premium, Paramount Plus (UCL/UEL) and ESPN plus (domestic cups) :/

Youtube TV is the most expensive of the bunch, going to see if there are any other options like IPTV

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Post by xdennis » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

lapetitejort wrote: post #49

banana_giraffe wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's free of ads from YouTube. Plenty of videos have baked in ads from the content creators themselves.

If you dislike them, check out the SponsorBlock extension, which will skip in-video ads. While you're at it, also get DeArrow, which chooses a random frame as the thumbnail and allows community written titles that accurately describe the videos.

But at that point why not block all ads without paying? (That's what I do.)

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Post by jayknight » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

adocomplete wrote: post #2

I was really hoping the tech giants would be able to transform live TV as opposed to offer the same experience for (now) the same price.

I hope mlb.tv someday offers all games (without blackouts) and no commercial breaks. Just leave the cameras in the field and crowd between innings. I'd pay good money for that.

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Post by mcast » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

solardev wrote: post #41

ylhert wrote: post #11

It's wild to me how much Youtube TV costs and yet they still serve you tons of ads. Coming from youtube premium where occasionally I have to skip through a preroll ad, I forget how much you are bombarded with ads while watching traditional TV. The fact that you have to pay the princely sum of $73/month on top of that boggles my mind. I canceled when they raised the price from $35/month and I'll never go back at these…

FWIW https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y... is a crowdsourced way to skip past promos (by timestamp). Or some creators have moved to Nebula, which seems to have less of that crap but IMO a worse UI than YouTube.

I really appreciate creators who add chapters to their YouTube videos, especially their sponsorship advertisements, since you can easily skip over them.