YouTube TV price increase to $64.99
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308449/youtube-tv-price-increase-64-99-viacom-hbo-new-channels
YouTube TV has announced a new price of $64.99 per month due to a new licensing agreement with CBS and they are adding a few new channels making it the most expensive alternative to cable in the marketplace.
Why is it when these cable alternatives announce price increases they give hardly any advance notice? I'm considering Philo @ $20/month (no sports though). For Michigan games not on local TV I may just go to a friend's house or catch the YouTube replay.
Anyone else want off the cable subscription hamster wheel?
Screw that noise.
Looks like Sling TV - Orange ($30/month) may require investigation. Then add the sports extra package ($10/month). Total cost = $40 / month. Gets all the sports channels I need (I pull the networks off the HD antenna.)
Note, Sling said last year they were adding BTN before start of this year's football season but I don't see that in their TV lineup yet. If they don't get it, it's dead to me.
These streaming services were supposed to "save us" from the corrupt, greedy cable companies.
Now these saviors are the corrupt, greedy streaming services.
I AM the cable
This is awesome. Well played.
I only have but one like to give you and it was totally worth it
With PS Vue bowing out, Youtube TV just doing whatever they want now.
I moved to YouTube after PSvue folded. I like PS Vue better.
A $15 price hike is insane. The only reason I don't have cable is because of the DVR.
When I saw this in that Google news feed on my phone, I thought it was a clickbate joke article.
Yea I liked PS Vue better. There’s Hulu+ I guess.
I hesitate to mention this since simply knowing is embarrassing... but Hulu Live does not include the channel that has 90-day Fiance. We only get the spin-off "Before The 90 Days", which like, as if.
I'm in lock step with you here. PS Vue had a much much much better interface and control system (we use a Fire TV). A DVR is the one thing that makes cable pricier than streaming services.
Now we are reconsidering what to do, pay the extra, switch to Hulu or find another means to watch live tv, which we rarely do.
So are there any alternative options out there besides cable and direct tv? This price increase now makes it time to shop.
So we dropped “live” tv all together. Use the cable company for internet. Have Netflix, Hulu, and Prime.
HD antenna for network live sports.
The wife uses Hulu to watch her network shows one day after they air. The ones not on Hulu are usually available for a few weeks on the airing network app.
and a loophole that I’m probably gonna get turned off for myself by sharing. If I log in to the ESPN or fox sports app with my cable ID they are accepted and let me stream. Doesn’t appear that they can tell that I am an internet only subscriber.
I'm thinking of trying Books.
Terrible reception
T Mobile bought Vue -- stay tuned.
These streaming services were supposed to "save us" from the corrupt, greedy cable companies.
Now these saviors are the corrupt, greedy streaming services.
I mean, people HAD to have seen this coming, right?
Well, sure, but cable prices have gone up substantially as well, partly *because* so many people have cut the cord. (Admittedly, "substantially" is probably less than 30%). The costs to air their channels has to be spread over a smaller and shrinking customer base. But when they raise prices, they try to do a lot of it with the garbage add-on fees instead of the base price. Like a hotel that advertises one price and imposes a mandatory resort / destination fee. Anyway, I was a DirecTV customer. When I switched to YouTube TV, I was saving just over $1,000 per year. That's a lot. Now if I don't cancel or switch from YTTV, I'll be down to $800+, and for a product I consider to be superior.
Oh boy, CBS content! And they're adding BET Her, MTV2, Nick Jr., NickToons, TeenNick, and MTV Classic soon!
*Wet fart noise
Don’t forget the Paramount Network!
I have missed me some Taffer... I don’t know if it’s 15 bucks a month miss, but missed none the less... SHUT IT DOWN!!!!
Yellowstone is the best show on tv.
Yeah, not really. It's OK, but kinda ridiculous for the shit a guy gets away with for just owning a lot of land.
I fully agree that this sucks. Been with them for four years now. That said the two main channels that contribute to this are Comedy Central and MTV. The ones you listed are irrelevant.
Comedy Central and MTV combine to have one good show. South Park for the layperson.
Comedy Central and MTV combine to have one good show. South Park for the layperson.
I used to really enjoy South Park but since 2016 a decent episode of South Park has been hard to find. Maybe I’ve changed or maybe they are just out of ideas but I am not entertained lately.
I would probably rather watch Drunk History on Comedy Central now. DH doesn’t compare to my favorite SP episodes but it’s certainly better than ‘Tegriddy Farms”.
We cut the cord and are doing Hulu Live. $55/month, but it's an extra $10 to fast forward commercials...
Does that include regular Hulu or is that extra?
It includes the regular Hulu features.
Yeah I just saw that shit.
5 years ago “YouTube TV: Save money with the channels you want without all the crap you don’t!”
Today: “We‘re adding some of the crap you left cable for in the first place and raising our prices by 30%!”
Cutting the cord only really saves you a decent amount of money if you're willing to do some marginally illegal things.
YouTube is now charging basic cable prices. So why wouldn't I just go with basic cable, add Netflix, and call it a day?
Well, the main issue I had with Cable/Fiber/DirecTV was the extra charges for renting boxes/DVR/etc. That and the price packages got worse if you aren't adding phone, cable + internet, etc.
I'm on the share plan right now - we share Netflix account with family and they share cable login. Call it illegal if you want, all I use it for is live sports and I'm forced to watch commercials so I'm struggling to find the victim here.
Best advice I was given came from a guy at Comcast - I told him I was cutting the cord because of the $10 charge each month for the extra boxes. We have 6 TVs hooked up, so that was costing me $50 per month. The guy told me that the Comcast/Xfinity app was available on the Roku. So I returned 5 boxes (just keeping the main box in our living room), bought Rokus (there was obviously up front cost doing this), and put those on all the other TVs. Now I save $50 every month not having to pay for those extra boxes. The only downside is that the Roku remote doesn’t have numbers, so you can’t just switch to a particular channel when on the Comcast app, you have to scroll, but that’s a minor inconvenience for the savings.
Doesn't the DVR only allow like 20 hours or something like that? That DVR rental is a major money maker for Comcast. They have no desire to give that away for free like the internet companies.
Time to start looking around again...
just quit. I have seven days to figure out an alternative.
My biggest problem is the monopoly on high bandwidth into the home. I can choose Charter or ... basically nothing.
Here in Detroit, it's Comcast or absolutely nothing. Dan Gilbert had his RocketFiber company, but I don't think they ever had interest in expanding beyond downtown/midtown.
Not true, you can get Uverse, and it's cheaper than Xfinity.
Uverse isn't everywhere. For me it's only Comcast. And I live in Ann Arbor.
When we moved to a new home, we finally had a choice between FiOs and Spectrum. It was a great feeling after being under a de facto monopoly for almost 10 years. Always seems like its 'dividing territories' to me
For the Metro Detroit Suburbs, WideOpenWest is way better than Comcast. 500Mbit/50Mbit, no data caps (Comcast has a 1TB/month cap), for $55/month for new subscribers.
Seriously? I *just* canceled Directv after 15 years of continuous service. I was counting on the $50 per month plan. I'll still save significant dollars compared to Directv, but that's a pretty steep price hike.
Ha, I just cancelled Dish Network after 13 years this weekend and signed up for YTTV. Three days later, a 30% increase. Ouch. I still have the Dish hardware. I may go back.
I’ve been with DirecTV for 16 years and plan to pull the plug in Aug when my contract expires. I’ve been using Comcast for Internet service for years, so I guess it’s time for the Internet and TV bundle. DirecTV is too damn expensive now and AT&T’s IP TV service isn’t a good deal.
Yeah, that's going to do it for us. They give you eight additional weeks (without live content) to watch anything you've stored in your library, which is nice. But they've hit a price point that makes going back to cable a relative bargain, not that we will.